Subj : Re: From the Continent
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Ray Quinn
Date : Wed Oct 29 2025 20:09:56


Hello Rob!

29 Oct 25 08:03, you wrote to me:

 RM> That's good and fast anyways... My plan is also 'unlimited' the same,
 RM> slowing after you reach your 'limit'. In the past 'Proper' Bell plans
 RM> didn't offer that but it looks like they do these days for most plans.

I have a friend who lives closer to downtown and he has AT&T fibre and, if memory serves, his speeds are over 300 mbps. Fibre isn't to our neighborhood yet. It was built in late 1958 through 196?. Ours was built in 1960, a few years before I was born.

The truck shop where I work is about 4 1/2 miles north of town and about one mile too far out for cable internet and AT&T doesn't serve that area, except for land line phone. The company sold on April 1 of this year and the new owner had the wireless internet provider (using 5 ghz links) disconnected after Starlink was installed. So far, so good. ~350/25 (We use 5 ghz links to our repeater site 37 miles away @ 7,500')

 RM> That's a while.. I was only married for about 5 years so I can't
 RM> imagine what that's like other than watching my parents who were
 RM> married for their whole lives from their late teens into their 90's..

My first was about 6 years. My parents celebrated their 63rd in June.


 RM> employed for the past 39 years so I haven't had to worry about
 RM> pleasing anyone but myself as long as I was successful enough to pay
 RM> the bills..

Next March, I will have my commercial driver license (CDL) for 40 years. I have been in 47 states (except Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii). I drove transit bus in the late 80's near Pismo Beach for a bit. For the last 25+ years, I have been a local driver, and coming up on 20 years at my current job.

73 de Ray
Visalia, CA DM06ii
W6RAY/WRKZ506


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