Why does my internet want me to kill myself in frustration?

Is there another ISP you can use? I get broadband through my cable provider, and use Airport Extreme as my wireless hub. It’s been pretty much plug-and-play for our three Macs. I had to do a little bit of reconfiguring (update from WEP to WPA2, which made things much faster and more secure) to add a Windows netbook into the wireless mix, but not a bit of problem.

I’m wondering about the antenna with broadband?

@Alfreda: I don’t know. We get broadband through our cell phone company, Alltel (which, apparently doesn’t exist anymore since Verizon took it over), so it’s a little USB we stick in our computer.
The antenna connects to the card (barely – it falls out if you breathe on it too hard), then we string it outside and it connects to the antenna on the roof.

@electricsky – like this?

ohhh, you have an air card…those are…okay, but I wouldn’t consider it “high speed”. There isn’t much you can do about that, it’s all about where you are in reference to the Verizon Towers.

If there is a cable provider, or DSL, I’d give them a call, and cancel your current service if you aren’t locked into a contract yet.

@electricsky, it sounds like you’re in Hooterville, and connecting through the Pixley Phone Company…

@cheebdragon: LOL. I’m pretty sure it works just as well.
@RandomMrdan: We don’t have cable or DSL out here. Yeah, it pretty much sucks living in the middle of nowhere.
@AlfredaPrufrock: Nice. That’s probably more high tech than this. ;)

because it is evil

@AlfredaPrufrock love that show lol