Our Business Sites

I’ve had to start completely from scratch with my own store as with my dh’s… 😯

That’s what I’ve been up to today in between laundry loads and cleaning the kitchen and trying to keep the children motivated in helping clean up the rest of the former schoolroom. Plus, I’ve been directing oldest dd in some school stuff she can do independently. *whew*

Anyway, partly why it takes so long is that we are still in the “stone age” with a dial-up connection. I would love cable/wireless but refuse (and can’t afford anyway) to spend the money to have a cable line run to the house. We don’t want cable tv…nor do we want the temptation of cable tv. 😉 I know that we could switch to dsl but at the time I looked into it, it was cost prohibitive as well…and some other problem that I can’t quite remember at the moment. Hmm. Maybe it’s time to look into it again, as this is ridiculous! 🙄

Not happy about it. Not happy at all. 😡

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January 5, 2005

Tamara

Categories: Business, General

4 responses to “Our Business Sites”

Marysue
January 6th, 2005 at 04:06

Ah, Tamara, if you could get DSL, just try and see if you can swing it. It’s literally the difference of night and day, compared to dial-up. Even the lowest tier of DSL is better.

I know for me, on dial-up, it was “If I’m online I have to do everything NOW” and it was slavish.

With DSL it’s “Always on” as long as computer is on, or router and modem are working 😉 (Just every once in a while things go sour with our carrier, or a child knocks the box off the bookcase the equipment sits on)

All in all, it beats dial-up. It’s freedom to do a little here and a little there, to read emails here and there. To upload something when it’s done, not wait to get more stuff done, etc.

It’s like, it can take chunks of time if you let it ooze you into it, but if you can just treat it like a little friend and know that it’ll alert you to new emails via sounds, and you know you can go to it and do a little work whenever you have a free moment.

So then when you upload and dowload with DSL it so much faster, so it saves tons of time.

And one can easily stream audio from the ‘net with DSL.

Depending on costs, it can be cheaper than $49 a month, but many people do pay that. It’s a higher price, BUT IT DOES’T COME WITH CABLE TV! 🙂 I’ve heard of lower priced DSL regions though. So … weigh it. We figure it into “business” costs as well, here. We also have vonage for DH’s business phone line and fax, and to use that we have to have DSL. We have it because we DO have DSL, but it’d be senseless to have three lines into the house from phone company, just as expensive (or more expensive) as having DSL, one phone line, and vonage. Yikes!

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Tamara
January 7th, 2005 at 14:37

We actually have a second line dedicated for the computer so I can just walk away and come back as time allows. Dial-up internet is “free” with our phone service…a fee of some sort that’s around $7/month. With the second line, it’s around $17-20/month. With our main phone line, since we hardly make any long distance calls, the bill isn’t too bad. I think DSL would practically double+ our bill…that with dh’s cell phone bill would be a big *ouch*. I think that’s the main reason we didn’t make the switch last summer…although, like I said, there seems to be another reason too that’s vague right now.

Our new computer sped things up tremendously! 😀 It’s been a year though and the new-speed-newness has worn off… I’m ready for more again! LOL Uploading, downloading…the waiting…*drums fingers*…I’m doing more of it and it needs to fit into every day life better. 😛

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Marysue
January 10th, 2005 at 09:25

Well, y’all have cheap phone service UP THERE! Whoa!

In any case, your computer shouldn’t get slower over time if you are defragging it as much as it needs and burning CD’s with stuff to archive, and get it off the hard drive.

As your harddrive gets filled up, things slow down.

Also, clear your Temp. Internet Folders, with all your browsers.

So you can try those things.

If it’s really bad though:

…then the easiest way to get stuff faster if you still don’t think it’s good, is to save your data on CD’s and Re-Install your whole OS, then re-install your programs and add back the data you want on the hard drive. 🙂

But of course, you aren’t REALLY talking about the above, you are talking about “how fast the internet seemed to be back when …” right? So it’s really the fact that you want a faster internet connection — the speed you’ve been driving at is below your tolerance now …

As we feel somewhat with our DSL, we’d love to go up 1 Tier in service.

Grass is always greener. Well not always. It’s just that we want zippedty click with no glitches, then that’s fast enough for ME internet-wise. 😉

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Tamara
January 11th, 2005 at 11:00

Don’t hold me to an exact price quote. 😉 It’s in my head (without recrunching #s) that if our long distant calls are very minimal then our bill can be held around $50/mnth (not counting cell phone). Of course, all this comes as a part of a package “deal.”