[HitTheTrail]

[Tom]

I generally like Windows 10. Although I really scratch my head at some of the un-requested update nonsense. On 2 different laptops the taskbar mysteriously moved from bottom to right. What the bleep! I thought maybe I had moved it by mistake on my laptop a few days ago but after seeing it moved on my wife's laptop I'm wondering if this was an automatic update. Not intuitive at all how to move it back. You'd think you could drag it back down to the bottom but no, must go to settings, taskbar, and select the taskbar position.

[Bedivere]

I hate how they don't give you the option of when to run the update cycle. I'll shut down my laptop at the end of the work day and it'll start updating and telling me not to turn it off. Hey, my day is over, I got things to do and places I need to be, I can't sit around for 15+ minutes while Windoze does its thing...

[treeswarper]

I do not like this update thing. I start up my computer to get a quick check on the weather and must wait, and wait, and wait and wait for updates to be installed. The updating slows down my computer so much that this site is all that will load. Dunno why. I use the nwhikers site to see if things are working and just exceptionally slow, or not working. From what I understand, even though Centurylink is always advertising super faster speed that we should sign up for, we have too many people on our rural system, but not enough for them to spend on a better system, so we would be paying them extra for the same speed. Oh well, have a happy weekend.

[trestle]

Centurylink is one of the worst companies in America. Their network and equipment completely ruined one of our computers. I would rather go without internet than accept their service.

[treeswarper]

I have seen Wave vans in the area. Anybody know how they are?

[Randito]

[WANative]

[Sore Feet]

Be aware that Wave has instituted land line data caps (of course, so has Comcast now, and CenturyLink looks to be rolling it out soon as well so it may simply be unavoidable in the future - Frontier is still free of them for now, I believe). If you stream video or movies, you will likely go over them and incur more fees for yourselves.

[cdestroyer]

The real truth about data caps is the digital stuff is still fairly new and there is no company as yet that has caught up.. Maybe in another ten years when nearly everything is digital. If you dont need to use the connection for a long time you might think about getting a mobile broadband device and pay as you go...It is still not cost effective but at least you can connect anywhere, sitting in your car in the middle of nowhere, so long as you can connect to a cell tower.. I have used the straight talk hocky puc thingy with speed up to 95mb. Not cheap but you can check email and weather in a fairly short time.....

[zephyr]

Thread drift alert. ~z

[treeswarper]

[zephyr]

[Sore Feet]

[Cyclopath]

Sorry to contribute to the thread drift, but I had an experience that's relevant especially to Sore Feet's post above me. I bought a new bike computer a week ago, a Garmin Edge 1000. It's been sitting on the shelf a while and immediately wants to be plugged into a computer and updated. It isn't just the software, it's the maps. I need to download an 8 GB map file.