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we to have ATT for our cell’s.
How do the micocell’s work? I have never seen one and was wondering if they work ok and how one goes about getting one.Family coming up this weekend and I was wondering if anyone knew if there is enough snow for the children to play in at Spicer Snow Park?
Or the lowest level we can find some snow to play in on State Route 4?Thanks in advance.
I’m pretty sure that it’s not going to snow again in Dorrington until we all chip in to help Dana meet her goal HERE.
It’s just a feeling…We ditched our ATT land line a couple of years ago and have been using our ATT Cell phones with a MicroCell ever since. Yes, we understand that with a power outage, we’re out of luck, and Comcast may be less reliable than the ATT wires, but we’ve been good with our situation, especially as only part timers. Frankly, we hardly ever use our phone. Usually just to make reservations at Sarafinas or order a take-n-bake pizza from Snowshoe. Everything else is text or email.
Yes, we understand the small risk of no 911, but I understand that our ATT lines are actually still active and can make a 911 (although I haven’t actually plugged our phone in to listen for a dial tone in a while…)
For the other question on internet, we have Comcast Blast-Plus which is now advertised at 105 MBps download. During the holidays this was plenty for us to use our AppleTV to watch endless episodes of Game of Thrones with only a couple times pausing for buffering. This was in parallel with our daughter playing games and texting on her phone.
Looking for boys snow pants that would fit kindergarten and 2nd grader. This is for visiting grandchildren this coming weekend.
Steve
We are actually thinking of ditching the AT&T landline and adding a cell phone to our family package sine we have a microcell there. I know there’s always the issue of power failures but for the amount of time we spend there I am not sure the landline is woth keeping. Any thoughts from others?
SteveHave not had use them yet. we got them as a backup. If the forecast is snow, we take my Jeep. I had talked to enough people who had that it was worth the purchase.
We have Comcast internet (25 mbps) and a Roku which works fine with it. My wife listens to IHeartRadio and it works fine as well. Since our ATT cell doesn’t work in Arnold, we do have the old fashion landline as well. Hope this helps.
I purchased a second set of wheels for our SUV and installed true snow tires on them (Bridgestone Blizzaks). We swap the wheels with the snow tires in the winter. True snow tires make a big difference. I think most Snow rated (M&S) don’t work nearly as well as true snow tires.
Somewhat along this line. What has been anyone’s experience with AT&T/sbc Internet?Any success using apple tv or streaming radio or music? I am definitely dumping Comcast tv, but am unsure if I have a viable Internet option.
I am on my seventh Subaru and to date, have never had to put on chains although I always carry them (cables). I have only been stuck once, but that was operator error when I lived at 8000′ and felt that I didn’t need to wait for the grader to make his second pass on the short hill leading up to my house.
My current Subaru is a 2014 Outback that I like a lot – of course I haven’t put it through the motions yet due to the drought conditions, but what I have had it in it has performed as expected. The stock Continental tires are a cause for concern though. The rubber compound is rather hard and you have to watch it a little on ice.
I’ve been tempted to get a second set of wheels with true snow tires for winter use but it is an expensive addition. If you are in the mountains for a significant amount of time, I think that’s the only way to go. For part time use, this gets questionable, but I believe there is a fairly significant difference between all season tires and true snow tires or studded tires even with AWD. The people who easily get through the tough conditions are on these tires. Our Subaru was worthless in bad conditions on Donner Pass with standard all season tires – couldn’t keep it on the road. Definitely kept cable chains in it after that experience.
Hi- we had spiders for our 2WD Honda Odyssey and I can’t recommend them highly enough. For us, they got us through some pretty nasty snow with no problems at all. But the main advantage to me is the ease of installation- it just takes seconds and it’s very simple. Putting on chains is such a pain that if you’re only driving through a *little* snow or ice, and you know the roads are clear after, it’s too easy to skip it and drive without them- and that’s when the problems start. Spiders are so easy to get on/off that this risk is really eliminated. We used ours through several winters with lots of snow driving till we literally wore them out. We’ve since sold the car and now have AWD (we also carry chains as required, but have had to put them on only once). But for my money, the $300 that spiders can cost are worth every penny.
We have had a couple of phone outages in the past and its a pain. They will say its good up to the house when its not. You may have to really keep after them. I got an old touch tone phone that can be wired to the outside box to test it. It never worked when they said it should. It was always their problem somewhere in the neighborhood.
