I had it here for a few weeks and had to go back to DSl. They worked all their
tricks and I hung tons of donuts and we couldn't get 160 and 500 watts to play.
Problem is losing the modem you not only lose the internet but the TV too. If
you have an XYL be ready to die.
It was also promoted here as being an optical cable. In my hood, the last
3/4-mile comes over the same 45 year old crappy phone wires as the DSL.
Rick, N6PE
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You do not need a parachute to skydive, unless you want to do it again.
Far be it for an American President to publicly congratulate (let alone even
mention) AMERICAN ingenuity and AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE for the miracle
rescue of the Chilean Miners.
•Schramm Inc. of West Chester, Pennsylvania built the drills and equipment used
to reach the trapped miners.
•Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania, built the drill bits used to
reach the miners.
•UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment from
Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours.
•Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita Kansas and its subsidiary
Geotec Boyles Bros. worked the drills and machinery to locate and reach the
miners and then enlarge the holes to ultimately rescue them.
•Jeff Hart of Denver Colorado was called off his job drilling water wells for
the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan to lead the drilling
crew that reached the miners.
•Atlas Copco Construction Mining Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin provided
consulting on how to make drilling equipment from different sources work
together under differing pressure specifications.
•Aries Central California Video of Fresno California designed the special
cameras that were lowered nearly a mile into the ground sending back video of
the miners.
•Zephyr Technologies of Annapolis Maryland, made the remote monitors of vital
signs that miners will wear during their ascent.
•NASA Engineers designed the "Phoenix" capsule that miners would be brought to
the surface in, and provided medical consulting, special diets and spandex
suits to maintain miners' blood pressure as they're brought back to the
surface.
Oh, and Canadian-based Precision Drilling Corp. and South-African company
Murray & Roberts, drilled backup rescue shafts in case the American rig
failed.
Which it didn't.
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