Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:19:03 -0500 From: Marian Norton Subject: Broadband for All Chatham Residents My nomination for “quote of the day”: “Anyone can check online for wireless broadband availability.” On Thursday’s Chatlist Taylor Kish seemed to hint that Chatham County residents, particularly Siler City apartment residents would beContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:33:59 -0500 From: John R Dykers Subject: Internet access, cost, access, taxes Taylor Kish (real name of pseudonym) asked real questions about internet access and costs and how they might evolve. We have a century plus of history of electrical access to apply to thisContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:00:02 -0600 From: J Subject: For once I don’t feel neglected and forgotten here On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Chatham Chatlist wrote: > Dreadpiratejeff wrote: > > ” I would just be happy if they could provide better than 10MB/s to myContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:22:30 -0500 From: J Gibson Subject: Chatham Internet Dreadpiratejeff wrote: ” I would just be happy if they could provide better than 10MB/s to my home as other areas get 40MB/s service on their aDSL circuits.” There are many of us who would really, reallyContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:47:28 -0500 From: trbz Subject: Straight Talk coverage reply Joshua Cohen asked about coverage of Straight Talk. It piggybacks Verizon, so we have had excellent coverage. We bought their cheapest touch phones (LG). They also sold us a one time $8/2yr warranty. Surprisingly, after 2Continue Reading
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 07:44:37 -0500 From: TheNC phoenix Subject: Response to Walmart Smart talk phone: Dear Smarttalk Walmart phone person. Tracfone is a good service. It owns many brands: Smarttalk Walmart. Virgin Mobile. Ten something. Many more. Tracfone is based in Mexico. Straighttalk is another company. Service isContinue Reading
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 18:26:52 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: Jan Hutton Subject: A shout-out for Computer Therapy and Lee Pollard I’d like to offer sincere thanks to Lee Pollard of Computer Therapy.. Lee, at no cost, took an older Dell laptop and cleaned and refurbished it.. It will now goContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:41:33 -0400 From: Tritech – Jody Subject: CenturyLink vs. Bridget; thoughts on rural Internet Bridget, I think you need to contact the North Carolina Utilities Commission, not the FCC. The FCC doesn’t regulate monopoly telecommunications provider quality of service issues, and probably won’t be helpfulContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:25:32 -0400 From: “Bridget Shipes” Subject: Centurylink at their finest…once again! So after much discussion over the summer months about Centurylink and their ability to provide decent services, I actually thought the issue was resolved. Well, my Mama always told me to NEVER make assumptions!Continue Reading
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 12:05:53 -0400 (EDT) From: terry Subject: Computer problems? Call Tri-Tech!! I tried to boot up Hewey, my desktop computer, yesterday morning and instead of hearing the merry windows tune, I was greeted with a very ominous black screen with the dire message “WARNING! SYSTEM FANContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:52:48 -0400 From: “Jan” Subject: Broadband in Chatham Just wanted to make you aware of a grass-roots effort to get broadband service in rural Chatham. While you may think it odd that there’s a post on an internet list about getting broadband internet to unservedContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:19:12 -0400 From: Gene Galin Subject: Visual Collection of @ChathamNC tweets You can view a the front page of http://www.chathamnc.net/ to see a visual collection of my @ChathamNC tweets. Know of any Chathamcentric tweeters I should be following? Just drop me a note and letContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 02:48:23 -0400 From: Lee – Computer Therapy, Inc” Subject: The rumor of my demise is a bit overstated… and a new location to drop off donation equipment Just want to let everyone know that I was able to contact the person that thought we wereContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:11:40 -0400 From: Ted Bonus Subject: Computer repair recommendation Brian Paren, who lives in Fearrington, repaired and speeded up our computer and we recommend him highly. He knows his stuff. His phone is 542-5702.Continue Reading
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:12:00 GMT From: Jackie Strouble Subject: Lee Pollard – Computer doctor I second Lisa Piper’s recommendation. Lee Pollard is terrific! I think my computer has the electronic equivalent of bipolar disorder, because it will function quite well for long periods of time, but about twiceContinue Reading
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