NO MORE DIAL-UP

Today NDTC came out and connected WildBlue. Everything went great. The rep was able to find a strong satellite signal on the east peak of the house and the dish installed fast, and it took the rep no time at all to burr the hole in the wall for the cable to come into the house. The modem connected to the satellite so then it was on to the computer.

I knew there was a network card in the computer, but it was old and had NEVER been used. When the rep checked out the computer, the network card was not registering. The rep had a new card with him and put it in to see if the new card would work since he had the installation disk for it. He installed it and my XP did notice it.

It took a long time to get everything else hooked up. There was an 8 step register process that the rep had to do from my computer and that took a lot of time because the computer had to be rebooted after 3 specific steps. But, I do have my high-speed connection now. It may not be Rural Advantage like I wanted, but it is something and it is working. At least I do not have to put up with dial-up any more.