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Dennis- We've been "cord free" for over 30 years. Not by choice-it's been the 2 locales we've lived in, the cable svc did not not extend out far enough to provide svc.
Over The Air we get about between 25 and 35 channels, usual CBS, NBC, FOX, ION, CW etc plus shopping channels a couple weather channels(radar scans)bunch of local types all on a 30ft tower with rotor. One thing with the digital signal with OTA if the weather gets funky the screen will freeze up/pixelate and get garbled if non existant voice especially on the weaker stations. (Old analog you'd get snowy screen but still hear).
Even per the phone company we are just a tad to far for DSL pickup point. So we are stuck with 'standard landline' aka dialup for internet (yes we do still exist).
As to cell service "you have to be in the right spot" in the house for a weak signal and that can vary. Now a state legislator is pushing a bill 'cut the the phone cord "everyone can go VOIP". Checked with our security company, a switch over to wireless would mean over a hundred $ for the main panel sending unit upgrade plus another $8 dollars a month monitor fee on top of the usual fee "because thats what the wireless provider charges them". sorry for going a tad off topic. I'm getting a wee frustrated with the changes foisted on us with no concern for the consumers wallet (aka fixed income)
How does Chromecast work? I've only just begun to see the little 'widget' forsale in the sale flyers(Best Buy, etc).
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Wweell being with AOL dialup, the sign in box tells me I connect 'normally' between 23000bps and 26800bps (yup BPS). There are times we've connected at 36000 and 38000bps (very rare) but we will be bumped off and will have to reconnect at the lower speeds of 24000bps. If there are vids i want to watch from like my woodworking emails Ican do a minute or so youtube clip(just go have dinner and come back to den and vid might be ready) Generally I drive into town and use the library's Hispd once a month for those videos
From pasteing the notice link into the broswer line a Tractorpoint page can take about a minute to 1 3/4 minutes to load sometimes a tad longer and others less. Seems like all the ads load first (guess ya have to have them and give them their due) 
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Thank You Dennis for recognizing the 'tech divide/limits' for some of us. Truly Appreciate your Efforts in trying to keep the info flowing no matter the 'electronic platform'= hispd, dialup, mobile,etc.
Once I figure out my wife's handme down smartphone (which was a handme down from daughters requiremnet in grad school - profs would text students late nite for pop quizes due by 2a.m.!!) Sorry for the off track must be "cabin fever" with 2 foot of snow still on grd even after our short thaw I must be getting antsy to do more than tractor seat time..
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Dennis- thank you for the mobile link seems link when i checked my email via smartphone it seemed to automatically have that link (i have an iphone3 using safari) don't ask i'm a tad in the fog banks on how all this meshes. As to usability mobile seems fine for quick read-loads pretty quick.. as to replying/posting via mobile SCARY. As I'm not comfortable not knowing what some of the icon /symbols mean/do. From ancient history I have an adversion to 'pushing buttons' as in early days of the 'dumb terminals' at my former employment I managed to get the cursor inputing data in the "non enterable sectors of the input screen" --I wasn't trying to hack or anything just typing data in--I got a 'grilling for several days' and took the programmers a week to undo. So I'm a bit bashful
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kthompson-thanks for the offer and would appreciate info on install costs, monthly fees etc and if there are any 'requirements'. About 2-3 times a year we get a flyer/postcard stuck in our regional weekly newspaper from a satelletie based internet svc -think it's called Hughesnet, for about $20.00** per month, the ** referes to a bunch of 'fine fine print/requirements ' that kinda scare me.
Again thanks would be interested to see if they be the same or how they would compare.
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Dennis- per the CFO here, she's already on the 'warpath' with our smartphone usage and not wanting to pay more for more GB. We're pretty much happy with watching movies OTA or we buy the DVDs when on cheap sale we have both DVD and VHS recording (she has to record her soaps). We considered satellite at one time so we could telework from home but the cost at the time was we would not be saving much on gas and the agency we worked for was very particular about which providers we used ( for the short time we tried via dialup it became more of a hassle- our tech support would say it's our IP the IP would say it's our settings and gateway. only to find our tech guru's forgot to trip certain switches for the morning.) darn soapbox off track again... sorry
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