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Breetai wrote:You can rig it so your dial-up connection hooks up to a router (via an ethernet connection in your PC might be one way; look into different ways). Then either wireless to your Wii or buy an adapter to hook up your Wii with a cable.
Breetai wrote:10Mbps isn't decent. It's pretty f'n slow. Petition your city to get 1.0Gbps!!!!!! Consider getting a job in another city.
Breetai wrote:New job time! I'm not saying it's easy, I'm just saying time for a career change.
Satellite internet!!!In order:
* It's their fastest available connection. Their slowest is less than a tenth fo that.
Get new internet providers!* It's not the city, it's the company. Embarq, BTW.
Seibu Lions?* There's no Food Lions in New York City, which is where I wanna move when I move out
Been there, done that, cleaned a few thousand fish and got a t-shirt (and a jacket). 18 hours a day, every day. Guiding on the side. Four summers. Northern Canada, for the win!that's just a summer job. And totally not a one-person job, espec. if you don't have your own car. In case you're wondering, my mom does that for a living. She makes almost, but not quite, $500 in a single Saturday (she only works Saturdays). So... she basically makes almost TWICE as much as me in a single day (roughly 8-10 hours) than I do in a two-week pay period (a pay period is two weeks, and I roughly work 40 hours/week in the summer).
Why not? Sounds like you aren't married, have no kids and living with your mother. Go west, young man, go west. Or go north to the great white and work on the oil pipelines ($40/hour, give or take), northern diamond mines (F'loads an/hour, give or take), crap fishing boats from Alaska, etc. Tons of great money up north. Satellite internet is available!!!And I can't just quit my job. There is no room for a "career change" in my town. Not for me or anyone.
Ouch. Super ouch! Get out of that town and don't look back. Get an education if you don't have one. I had to do both, since my small town was dying.I make $9.50/hour and that's a lot in this town.
Dude, listen to me. I'm also from a dead-beat town in the middle of nowhere. Good for vacations and not much else. GET OUT OF TOWN.If you lived in this town, and knew that the only way to get broadband was either bottom-of-the-barrell cable internet or often-reliable/often-not high-speed DSL from the ONLY telephone service provider on the island, and dealt with having NO WAY to get hours at your job in the off-season cuz your place of work is either cutting hours left and right OR they flat-out closed until the tourists start coming, and dealing with asshole tourists and the threat of hurricanes...
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...then you can tell me if you can:
* just magically change careers
* get a better-paying job
* move to a big cityEh, I've had a few drinks and I'm on a role. I'm pretty sure my advice is solid, other than having a total lack of information here. This guy could be 17 years old or 37. Might have no chance of finishing high school or a live-in-parent's-basement-with-a-master's degree kind of guy. No idea.manaman wrote:Hmmm,
To play Devil's advocate, maybe he wants to stay in that town and maybe there are some good reasons for that which we aren't privy to. Just because a town has low paying jobs and no good Internet providers doesn't mean it's dead to the world.
But, I'm just sayin' is all,
manaman
REPO Man wrote:* There's no Food Lions in New York City, which is where I wanna move when I move out
Dude, listen to me. I'm also from a dead-beat town in the middle of nowhere. Good for vacations and not much else. GET OUT OF TOWN.Breetai wrote:Satellite internet!!![/quote[
Most satellite internet providers, from what I hear, don't work that well. And besides, a land line won't get fucked up by a storm, unlike my DirecTV.Breetai wrote:Get new internet providers!
They're actually the best on in the area. Damn near everyone else is too slow. There's no way to "get new internet providers", cuz there aren't any others... at least none worth relying on.Breetai wrote:Seibu Lions?
They're located in only about 11 states, but they're owned by the Delhaize corporation, based on in Belgium. There's also many sister stores, like Bottom Dollar, Harvey's, and Reids. Look 'em up on Wikipedia.Breetai wrote:Why not? Sounds like you aren't married, have no kids and living with your mother. Go west, young man, go west. Or go north to the great white and work on the oil pipelines ($40/hour, give or take), northern diamond mines (F'loads an/hour, give or take), crap fishing boats from Alaska, etc. Tons of great money up north. Satellite internet is available!!!
Umm... no. I am not working for a pipeline. Or in a mine. And I despise fishing. The last one is big in my town and I detest it. And Alaska is too north.Breetai wrote:Ouch. Super ouch! Get out of that town and don't look back. Get an education if you don't have one. I had to do both, since my small town was dying.
So in bigger cities, $9.50/hr is nothing? So New York City has better-paying jobs?
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...then you can tell me if you can:
* just magically change careers
* get a better-paying job
* move to a big cityScientists have begun work on a new type of hard drive that holds up to 500 Gigabytes in a device the size of a matchbox. Yeah, since more room to hold illegally downloaded movies and porn is much more important than curing cancer.
Actor Zac Efron has been tapped to play the role of Fiyero in next year's production of the Broadway musical Wicked. In a related story, Zac Efron is an actor now, apparently.
Limewater wrote:REPO Man wrote:* There's no Food Lions in New York City, which is where I wanna move when I move out
Dude, I'm not going to tell you to change your life or get all judgmental or anything, but I've really got to know the issue with the above.
The lack of Food Lions in New York City is keeping you at home? Was that a joke, or is there a serious reason? If the Food Lion thing is serious, can you share an explanation? If not, that's fine, but I'm really, really curious.
It's none of my business, but I would not recommend moving to New York City, by the way. Cost of living there is sky-high. As a blue-collar worker, you can do a lot better further south right now, imo.
But regardless, good luck!