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Hi All;
Friday night my ATT U-Verse modem was knocked out by a Lightning strike so I am now without Internet At Home or Telephone & appears I will not be able to get back up before Thursday of this week. I will have tp play Catch Up,oce back on line.
Miller/TN

Miller, sorry to hear you'll be out of commission for several days. I recall the sense of relief I felt when I finally got rid of all vestiges of AT&T for home phone, cell phone, and internet. The service was horrible, and I got to know many of the local technicians by name because I had to deal with them so often. Even they admitted that the infrastructure they had to work with was horribly outdated and in a constant state of disrepair.

But seriously, I really think that Larry had something to do with knocking out your internet. He would do anything to avoid admitting that you frequently prove him wrong.

Hope you get something back up and running soon, Miller. I appreciate your posts here, and would miss them.

I got rid of AT & T a few months ago myself, keith. My situation was exactly as you described. It felt good to make that final call to them, telling them to discontinue my service. I live way out in the sticks and never had a good enough cell phone signal to depend on it in an emergency. But, I bit the bullet and invested in a Wilson Electronics cell phone signal booster. I mounted the external antenna at about 60' height outside, pointing it towards the nearest Verizon tower. When we plugged it in we immediately went from a "one bar" signal strength to "four bars" with 4G. The savings from not paying AT &T for the landline will pay for the booster in a matter of months. BTW, the booster works with more than one phone at the time, and works with any network company. It just boosts the signal it receives outside and re-transmits it inside the house.

Take care friend, SRH

I feel bad for thinking it, but I was relieved when this wasn't about some health or other similar worry. Mentioned it before, but that same company has a line of vehicle cell phone signal boosters that're worth every penny and more.

Hi All;
The serviceman finally got here this afternoon. He had to put me in a new Modem. He said he had had an unreal number of calls the last two weeks as we have had /Bunches of severe thunderstorms in this area. My problem is I live in a rather remote area here so have three choices for internet; Dial-up, Satellite or U-Verse through AT&T. Since first going online some 20 years ago I have had all three. Bad as it is U-Verse is the best of the lot.

I am about 3 miles from a Version Tower BUT which is west of me. My house faces East & behind me is a steep hill beginning at the edge of my back yard with a change of elevation of around 100 feet to the top. Those cell phone signals just don't get down in the "Holler", Valley to you City Slickers.

Anyway, I monitor around 5 forums, two on shotguns & 3 on antique Sewing Machines, so with all the backlog of posts, it'll likely take me a couple or three days to get caught up.

Craig;
I appreciate your thoughts concerning my health condition, I am now in my 6th week of a study Group at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. I had 5 infusions on a weekly basis, am taking a capsule a day for two 28 day cycles. I do not get anopther infusion until late in July & after the two 28 day cycles for the capsules are over will go on 21 days out of each 28-day cycle. I have told several folks close to me that I am on a Lunar cycle so if they hear something sounds like a Werewolf on the full of the moon, don't get too excited, it'll probably just be me, but I'm not Dangerous.

Anyway, it's good to be back online.

Welcome back. PM sent.

Great to have you back Miller.

Great to have you back Miller.

Glsd the "vacation" was a short one. We all appreciate your posts.