I live in a little bitty town of 460 people in SW Missouri, where the only ISP is a company called INetVisions. Their service is wireless broadband, which means I have a radio transmitter on the side of my house that beams my signal to a central antenna on top of the town water tower. This antenna then beams the signal to a much more powerful transmitter located on a cell phone tower about 2 miles outside of town. That transmitter then sends the signal 20 miles away to Inet's office. Their service is slow, it's a 512mb up\down connection, but it's better than dial up, which is the only altenative.

   Now for the curve ball life threw at me.....Last Monday night, we had a series of severe storms blow through, including 2 tornado warnings. Luckily neither tornado hit the town, but the second one did wipe out the cell tower.  There went my internet service! We were down all week, while Inet installed a temporary transmitter on the water tower. It's not as powerful as the one that got trashed, due to FCC regulations of some sort, according to INet. So, it does the job, but not very well. My connection speed is around 256 now, and it drops out quite frequently. According to Inet, they have to wait for Sprint to rebuild their cell tower before they can install a replacement transmitter for the one that was trashed during the storm. That may take a while. But, at least I can get online and check my mail and forums and such. And, Inet is giving us a half price discount until the full service is restored, so I guess I cant complain. Well, I could, it just wouldn't do much good, hehe.

   Clear Skies till next time!