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Message: [QUOTE="oldguy, post: 1283986, member: 16965"] According to the world we live out in the sticks even though I can see the city across the river from us so nobody will run cable out our way. :coocoo: This forces me to subscribe to hughesNet satellite internet in order to get any semblance of "high speed" service (no the phone company doesn't offer us DSL either). Now I have put up with going outside mid snow storm to brush the snow off and I have tolerated the outages when severe weather hits but now.... Last week I got this email- [i]We are pleased to announce an upgrade to the HughesNet email service. The upgrade will provide customers with enhanced email features. How will this effect me? Between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on April 26, 2008, you will be unable to change passwords or add or delete Hughes.net email accounts. However, you will still be able to receive and send email during this time. Between 6:00 p.m. April 26, 2008 and 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time April 27, 2008, you will not have access to your Hughes.net email account. Don’t worry- any new emails will still be received at your account during this time! [/i] well OK they are getting me improved email services and I can get by without email for a few hours. Yestrerday I covered a Hare Scrambles but had a deadline of4PM today to submit the article still no problem. The editor made arrangements for the results to get emailed to me as soon as they were finished so I could do the article. Well I talked the trophy lady into giving me her copy of results when she was done figuring it would save me an hour or so of waiting for the email. I get home and work on the story get it finished attach it to an email and send it off only to get a message email failed to find server. Figure it is a glitch in my laptop so I grab a scandisc and load it on to put on the desktop so I can send it off. Desktop says email server cannot be found. The internet works but no email server found. I call Hughes Net and the technician after 5 minutes of getting "michael" (who speaks with a very heavy East Indian accent :whoa: ) to understand my question I get the explanation that "the upgrade hit a couple glitches that we did not expect but we should have service up in the next 48 hours" I mention I have a very time sensitive email I need to send and his response- "I am very sorry you should be able to send it in the next 48 hours or so" :blah: Luckily I got hold of the editor at midnight and he set up an account so I could access his computer on line and upload the files directly. Now 24 hours later still no email but I should have it any day now :bang: [/QUOTE]

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