Problems with Centurylink Mail

[NCjeeper]

Nothing constructive to add expect I was a Century Link customer and was ecstatic to get rid of them when another company ran fiber in our area.

 

[rabler]

Trying to define the meaning of "broad". I looked at Starlink Customer Support and the graphic seems to indicate a 100 to 120 degree cone. Is that angle consistent with your experience?

I'll do one better, I'll let Starlink define it. You can download the Starlink app to a smartphone. You do not need to be a Starlink customer. It uses an overlay on the phone's camera image, along with your GPS coordinates, to show you the area where it needs a clear view of the sky.

 

[RJSakowski]

@silence dogood

I think there are some carriers/services for internet, phone, cable, etc that are just milking the last dollar out of a dying service where they have a monopoly. Starlink has been pretty robust for me now for a year. You do need a broad view of the sky. For me, due to trees, that meant a 20' high mast.

Mt. Horeb Telephone Co.'s territory ends just past our barn. In the past, there have been fierce battles when one company tried to operate in in another company's territory. It appears different now. I believe that Centurylink is trying to divest themselves of all the unprofitable assets so they are willing to allow those transgressions now. Anyway, MHTC has been building out from their core area.

Trying to define the meaning of "broad". I looked at Starlink Customer Support and the graphic seems to indicate a 100 to 120 degree cone. Is that angle consistent with your experience?

I have a clear view of the sky but I don't want to go with Starlink as a provider. I'm not that fond of Musk and I don't want to tie myself to one of his businesses. I used to sell satellite t.v. systems in the 1980's and I'm aware of the technical issues. A land based service is my preference. There was talk of mini repeaters serving small numbers of households like ours that are screened from the more traditional repeaters by terrain but there hasn't been any progress as far as I know. If MHTC is willing to lay fiber optic cable past my house, I will sign on.

I am, similarly, a hostage/victim of Frontier until I can afford Starlink. I do not use their email, I have Yahoo and Gmail accounts. Just because you get your internet from Century Link doesn't mean you have to use their email. The other advantage is that, when I do switch ISPs, my email is not affected. I do find that Yahoo will occasionaly send mail to the spam folder that doesn't belong there, but I have 30 days before they delete it.

I have a Gmail account as well. I had a Yahoo account but canceled that one. There was another account with the same iser name in Colorado and I used to get his e-mail. I preferred to not tie my e-mail correspondence to Google, particularly sensitive correspondence which is why I stayed with the Centurylink account. Concerns about hackers accessing Google's data.

 

[matthewsx]

Buy your own domain name and setup mail there. You can forward mail to/from there to wherever you like. I‘ve used several different web mail services and find it way more convenient than running a traditional mail client like thunderbird. Gave up on local mail clients for my personal email many, many years ago. I can get my mail from anywhere with this strategy and never run out of storage.

John

 

[rabler]

Mt. Horeb Telephone Co.'s territory ends just past our barn.

Does your property line go past your barn? If so, time to install an outhouse there and ask Mt Horeb to provide it with internet connectivity

 

[RJSakowski]

Does your property line go past your barn? If so, time to install an outhouse there and ask Mt Horeb to provide it with internet connectivity

It won't be a problem when they put the fiber optic in as they will go right past the house. Phase 2 of their plan will actually go just past your old home to Knight Hollow Road.

Years ago, the telcoms guarded their territories jealously. Actually, it worked in reverse. MHTC had notoriously poor service and my neighbor to the south wanted to change to Midplains, now Centurytel. She had to go to court to be able to switch. They finally agreed because her driveway was actually 1/2 mile to the north and within the Midplains territory. She had to pay for running 1/2 mile of line to her house. Ironically, she wasn't happy with the service and switched to Starlink a few years later.

We used to joke about it that a call from our barn to the house was long distance.

 

[rabler]

It won't be a problem when they put the fiber optic in as they will go right past the house. Phase 2 of their plan will actually go just past your old home to Knight Hollow Road.

Rather ironic. My dissertation was related to internet technology. I'd really prefer fiber connectivity, and fiber optic internet will be available there before where I live now, which is within a couple miles of our county seat, a town which has a population slightly bigger than Mt Horeb. My father lives in an even more rural part of NE Iowa and also has fiber internet.