Second that, although I believe admission to USAA is still limited to active US armed forces personnel or their direct dependents, or dependents of current members.
I too live in former Verizon, current Fairpoint territory, and for us, the change really hasn't meant all that much in terms of availability of broadband, due to the efforts of a few fixed-point broadband wireless ISPs. The largest in my area, Pioneer Broadband (http://www.pioneerbroadband.net/, currently down, just to spite me), covers almost half the state of Maine, and can drop a 1024/256 connection into the majority of that area very easily. This sort of success is not just limited to this one area, as you can tell by reading the isp-wireless list (http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-wireless/).
If this is something that you are interested in pursuing for your area, please feel free to message me and I can point you to a few more resources.
I have had to call HP tech support twice in the course of owning my laptop. Both times I reached someone who said they were located in the Pacific Northwest, and sounded as if they were a native speaker. Now, that was a year or so ago by this point, so that might have changed, but my experience with HP tech support has been very positive, in contrast to every other tech support call I have ever made...
I work now for an ISP, and before my boss got into the internet business, he worked as a tech for a number of local broadcasters, spending three consecutive days in the "doghouse" as the basxe of the towers. All three of the other men he worked with died of cancer before they were 60.
An in respect to the Wi-Fi and cell phone comments, I hate to be a wet blanket, but a cellphone operates at.5 watts, a car phone or bag phone at 6-ish, and WiFi doesn't take a whole lot more, to my reccolection.
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Second that, although I believe admission to USAA is still limited to active US armed forces personnel or their direct dependents, or dependents of current members.
I too live in former Verizon, current Fairpoint territory, and for us, the change really hasn't meant all that much in terms of availability of broadband, due to the efforts of a few fixed-point broadband wireless ISPs. The largest in my area, Pioneer Broadband (http://www.pioneerbroadband.net/, currently down, just to spite me), covers almost half the state of Maine, and can drop a 1024/256 connection into the majority of that area very easily. This sort of success is not just limited to this one area, as you can tell by reading the isp-wireless list (http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-wireless/). If this is something that you are interested in pursuing for your area, please feel free to message me and I can point you to a few more resources.
I have had to call HP tech support twice in the course of owning my laptop. Both times I reached someone who said they were located in the Pacific Northwest, and sounded as if they were a native speaker. Now, that was a year or so ago by this point, so that might have changed, but my experience with HP tech support has been very positive, in contrast to every other tech support call I have ever made...
"from the sure-wish-i-had-devel-seeds dept" And I wish I had the hardware to run them on!
I work now for an ISP, and before my boss got into the internet business, he worked as a tech for a number of local broadcasters, spending three consecutive days in the "doghouse" as the basxe of the towers. All three of the other men he worked with died of cancer before they were 60.
.5 watts, a car phone or bag phone at 6-ish, and WiFi doesn't take a whole lot more, to my reccolection.
An in respect to the Wi-Fi and cell phone comments, I hate to be a wet blanket, but a cellphone operates at