October 20th 2007 Western Magic Part 4

[MinnMick01]

I am logged in yah

 

[JLDSMD]

DH and I are not seeing eye to eye on this one so he wants me to ask all of your if you know. If it is a port day and the older kids do not want to go to port with us can they be left in the kids programs and we go to port?

I see pros and cons to both sides of this, so I figured I would humor him and ask.

12 or older, I would probably leave them in the club. The younger one I would not.

Suz probably wouldn't leave DS on the ship without us even if he's 17.

 

[JLDSMD]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I hate dail up. The pages are taking forever to load and for some reason I can not sign into my account. So everything I am wanting to save won't save.

You really need to look into DSL. It is probably only $10 more than your dial up is anyways.

If I remember correctly, you were going to look into a faster internet after the cruise. You're only 3+ months short of the cruise. For the $40 and all the planning you will want to do ahead of the cruise, I'd take the plunge now. Especially before online ressies open up for you.

 

[MinnMick01]

12 or older, I would probably leave them in the club. The younger one I would not.

Suz probably wouldn't leave DS on the ship without us even if he's 17.

Our youngest, Mackenzie will be by our side anytime we go off ship, but we are starting to see that the older 2 want nothing to do with us, or being around us, so we are not sure if they will want to get off at the port and if they don't want to get off and we make them they will make our time misserable. So we are trying to feel out our options now. Trying to make this trip as stress free as possible but I am starting to see I am not going to make everyone happy all of the time.

 

[MinnMick01]

You really need to look into DSL. It is probably only $10 more than your dial up is anyways.

If I remember correctly, you were going to look into a faster internet after the cruise. You're only 3+ months short of the cruise. For the $40 and all the planning you will want to do ahead of the cruise, I'd take the plunge now. Especially before online ressies open up for you.

DSL is not available for our area. So we are stuck with cable, with a cable provider that I do not like. We have our cable through them and their customer service is horrible, and they have raised our price 4 times in six months. If we go with cable I have to have a line ran to this room, they have not come out to look but based off what we told them they quated us anywhere from $70 to $180 to install it, then there is a the cable modem for $60, and the actuall lowest cable internet they offer is $50 a month. So for our cable tv and then cable internet it would be $105 a month. We have basic cable tv at that. Right now for dail up and cable tv we are only paying $65 a month. We still have not paid off our cruise so we are finding it difficult to have them come install and buy the modem. But I am so frusterated because I have been on since 9:00 and have not accomplished anything.

 

[JLDSMD]

Our youngest, Mackenzie will be by our side anytime we go off ship, but we are starting to see that the older 2 want nothing to do with us, or being around us, so we are not sure if they will want to get off at the port and if they don't want to get off and we make them they will make our time misserable. So we are trying to feel out our options now. Trying to make this trip as stress free as possible but I am starting to see I am not going to make everyone happy all of the time.

If you give them "sign out" privelages on the ship, make sure you suspend them while you are off the ship.

You don't want to have them sign themselves out while you're not around.

Not sure if they could then get off the ship or not.

 

[MinnMick01]

If you give them "sign out" privelages on the ship, make sure you suspend them while you are off the ship.

You don't want to have them sign themselves out while you're not around.

Not sure if they could then get off the ship or not.

Thanks I did not know you could suspend that privilage. I will make sure we do that. I did read somewhere that anyone under the age of 18 is not allowed off the ship without an adult.

 

[MinnMick01]

If we book parasailing and it gets canceled due to weather we get our money refunded to our account correct.

 

[JLDSMD]

DSL is not available for our area. So we are stuck with cable, with a cable provider that I do not like. We have our cable through them and their customer service is horrible, and they have raised our price 4 times in six months. If we go with cable I have to have a line ran to this room, they have not come out to look but based off what we told them they quated us anywhere from $70 to $180 to install it, then there is a the cable modem for $60, and the actuall lowest cable internet they offer is $50 a month. So for our cable tv and then cable internet it would be $105 a month. We have basic cable tv at that. Right now for dail up and cable tv we are only paying $65 a month. We still have not paid off our cruise so we are finding it difficult to have them come install and buy the modem. But I am so frusterated because I have been on since 9:00 and have not accomplished anything.

Not sure who you have for dial up, but I always see these Net Zero ads that say that they have speeds up to 5x faster than standard dial up. All for $9.95. Not sure how their dial up is faster, but I think Earthlink offers something like that as well.

We originally did our cable internet through Earthlink. They were cheaper than the local provider and actually used the local providers service. The local provider billed us, but any service isssues went through Earthlink.

Go to Net Zero's site or call them and see what they can offer. If they can do it, 5x faster is better than the normal 56k that dial up has.

 

[JLDSMD]

Thanks I did not know you could suspend that privilage. I will make sure we do that. I did read somewhere that anyone under the age of 18 is not allowed off the ship without an adult.

I am not 100% sure you can. I am just assuming you could. You'd have to check with the club.

Don't know about how you can get off the ship. Sorry.

 

[JLDSMD]

If we book parasailing and it gets canceled due to weather we get our money refunded to our account correct.

If you book through DCL, they should either NOT charge you or give you a credit for it.

 

[MinnMick01]

Not sure who you have for dial up, but I always see these Net Zero ads that say that they have speeds up to 5x faster than standard dial up. All for $9.95. Not sure how their dial up is faster, but I think Earthlink offers something like that as well.

We originally did our cable internet through Earthlink. They were cheaper than the local provider and actually used the local providers service. The local provider billed us, but any service isssues went through Earthlink.

Go to Net Zero's site or call them and see what they can offer. If they can do it, 5x faster is better than the normal 56k that dial up has.

I have NetZero. We started with their free service and then went to their $9.95 service, I will tell you though I did not know it was supposed to be 5 times faster I am barley pulling 56k. I will have to go check out their site and see what is going on. I will also check earthlink and see what they offer for cable.

 

[MinnMick01]

Just pulled up NetZeros home page and it looks like they also offer dsl. I will have to do some investigating. Thanks for the tip.

 

[JLDSMD]

Just pulled up NetZeros home page and it looks like they also offer dsl. I will have to do some investigating. Thanks for the tip.

For DSL, you need to be within about 17,000 feet of the service point.

I would look around at all providers in your area to see if someone is close to you.

 

[MinnMick01]

Looks like what I have is netzero Platinum which is $9.95 a month and that is just normal dail up with no adds, I could go to Net Zero High speed for $14.95 a month which is 5 times faster then a 28.8k modem, so now I am confussed because I have a 56k modem. SO is it only going to be 2 times faster then what I have now.

 

[MinnMick01]

For DSL, you need to be within about 17,000 feet of the service point.

I would look around at all providers in your area to see if someone is close to you.

huh? What providers are we talking about, phone providers? if so we only have one and they say DSL is not available.

 

[MinnMick01]

Well I have been on now 3 hours and just now got done looking at all the shore stuff for Castaway. I might have to pick one port a day at this rate. I need to get off to make a phone call and eat lunch I will check back in a little while.

Thanks for all your help Jeff.

 

[JLDSMD]

Looks like what I have is netzero Platinum which is $9.95 a month and that is just normal dail up with no adds, I could go to Net Zero High speed for $14.95 a month which is 5 times faster then a 28.8k modem, so now I am confussed because I have a 56k modem. SO is it only going to be 2 times faster then what I have now.

Actually it would be 2.5x faster.

 

[JLDSMD]

huh? What providers are we talking about, phone providers? if so we only have one and they say DSL is not available.

There are other companies out there, other than your phone company or cable company, that will offer DSL.

Do a google search for DSL in your city (i.e. DSL Phoenix).

The other way to look it up would be to go to Yahoo and select Yellow Pages. Set the city to your city and then do a search for DSL. I did it for Phoenix and several options come up. Not sure what city you are actually in.

It all depends where each company has the "point" - I can't remember the technically name for it. You have to be within so many feet of that.

I think DSL starts at 256k, which would be 5x faster than you have right now. Some of the companies may even offer new customers free modems. Just gotta check them out.

 

[JLDSMD]

Where are all the WI DISers today? Enjoying the hot weather?