fredsheldon wrote:Yes, thanks for taking the time to expand on the topic. Does the utility have the right to knock down/move/dig up anything that is in their ROW. I think my rose bushes in my back yard are in the ROW and I would not be very happy if they came in and dug them all up
Fred
Depends on the wording of the easement, but my guess is they have the right/responsibility to remove the bushes if they interfere with their use.
wa2crk wrote:"A contract with no stationary terms" sounds like Obamacare to me or the way some judges interpret the Constitution. I now await my IRS audit.
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First off, lucky for you someone from VA did not catch the loose/lose thing!!!
ROW is just that, it is there ROW!!!! Anything you put there that is in there way they will remove!!! Of in the case of, lets say a shed, you may have to move it or get charged if they do.
Progress of this type is like "eminent domain", who cares if you were happy with your service speed and type, it is their lines, they are the provider, you dont dictate to them. Just like if you local wants to change a 2 lane street to a 4 lane, that you drive on and are happy with it just being a 2 lane. IT AINT up to you to decide what they want to do because it AINT your street!!!
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I am looking for a new internet provider... We use the Verizon mobile wifi hotspot and it works just fine. I like being able to drop it in my pocket and have access anywhere even while going down the road out of state (not while driving ). I have never had any problem at all with speed. My complaint is that it is limited to 5 gig a month without extra charges and that makes it too high. It's $50 a month base and $10 for each additional gig. Back when we started using it we never ran over even though we were both on-line a lot and a grandson was here daily after school daily and was gaming. Now just my wife and I run over about every month. Today's internet just loves to waste bandwidth. We used to watch a few videos now and then. Now we never watch any videos. No streaming anything. If we really want to see a video we watch it on our smart phones which are unlimited. Kind of hard to see sometimes.
They did update from 3-G to 4-G which seems to waste even more bandwidth. Facebook is a terrible bandwidth waster especially after they started pre-loading videos and it was also running them if you passed over them. I blocked the playing with a browser option but I have not been able to block the pre-loading. Most of my spread out family contact is through there as well as a few occupational sites. Not what I want but it wouldn't be so bad if FB cared at all about bandwidth usage. Pretty much all websites seem to think that it is OK to waste our usage but Verizon has not kept up with what the web is today. A couple of months ago Verizon said that we used 13 gigs... but then they did a software update on the wifi unit and the overage went away.
A lot of the problem is people that have unlimited service and use hundreds of gigs a month even when they are not using it for anything, like playing music all the time even when they are not home which drives up cost. I'm now reading that more and more services are putting on data caps for new customers again.
AT&T has been promising DSL "any day now" for a number of years. Once they said "as soon as it gets warm enough to pour a concrete pad" (on the next road west of us). Obviously they were lying through their teeth. That was about 3 years ago.
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Our TV is by satellite, basic Direct... You know what that is: 140 channels, about 12 of which don't just totally suck... That contract is up in February but I don't know what to do there either. Nobody will give you a straight answer, everything is some kind of gimmick pricing and the truth tends to not be very important to the reps.
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We use Straight Talk for our phone service, $45 each with unlimited talk - text - web and we have been quite happy with it for some time. We did away with the land line some time back. We made sure that the smart phones we bought used Verizon lines and we get very reliable service (except for some odd reason not inside of Wal-mart's automotive dept. ). Our service is far better that a lot of folks we know that are on very expensive contract plans.
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In a separate thread we were briefly looking at building things or for things you want to do on your property and the need to look get building permits etc. In my case I used the building code to locate my shed, and it was verified by the city so I will have no issue on that regard.
Several others on the street by passed this and it will be interesting to see how that works for them. Their sheds are right up to the property lines. Some others have added concrete patios which may be interesting as well... the worst off might be the next door neighbor who put a garage up without a permit and over the area where they might need to run wires. The garage was built maybe 25 years ago and house has had a series of owner since. If it becomes an issue they will be fined and the garage may have to be removed even if they have no knowledge of the problem.
I have seen two people who had to removed there sheds and one that had to take out a concrete slab. The one place sold shortly after that and the new owners put a new concrete slab back in the same location and now it has new owners so it could get interesting again.
I might be inline for some bushes to be remove but I don't care too much about that as I have not gotten to attached to what is there and I have been looking to make some changes anyway.
I'm not upset that these changes are happening just finding it interesting that they are happen at the same time. And still wondering if any one else is seeing this same sort of activity.
I'm not upset that these changes are happening just finding it interesting that they are happen at the same time. And still wondering if any one else is seeing this same sort of activity.
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These changes are usually coordinated with the other utilities to do them at the same time, one reason is to decrease the amount of disruption to the residents, another is sometimes they lay the lines in the same trenches to save cost.
As a general contractor for 20+ years, lots of additions, some prospective clients would ask me if I was going to pull permits? I would tell them alway!!! First I could loose my GC license and be fined, second they get you either way, and if later usually a higher permit fee, a fine, and THEN they want a licensed trade person to pull the permit and inspect the work and sign off on it if done to code and they know you are in a bind and charge accordingly. In the case of mechanicals that are in enclosed walls, they may want the walls opened to inspect. Inspectors look out for each other, example, you put in a new water heater yourself, most places want a permit pulled and a licensed plumber to do it if gas, if electric may need a plumber and electrician. Everything is date stamped now, even Romex, so you do the water heater no permit, then do something a year or so later that has a permit pulled, that inspector comes in for that and notices a new looking water heater, looks at the date code on it, now he may do multiple trade inspections or just his specialty, goes back to the office and either looks up for a pluming permit around that time himself or turns it over to the plumbing inspector, Ah no permit pulled, now Reliable get a letter and or call!!! $$$$
In the case of out door sheds, inspector knows where the ROWs are and can inform you on that right from the start, or too close to a lot line, a Ghestopo neighbor might turn you in.
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The old service we had (DSL PRO 3Mbs) had a limit of 150GB limit per month and then they add I think it was 50GB packages as you used them for an additional charge of $10 for each package. I personally don't even use up my the 150 I had but now with the U-verse package I get 6Mbs rate and 250GB. Since I don't stream movie downloads I don't need the extra speed or the extra data.
I must say the speed is nice when doing downloads but since they are mostly done in the background the time is only relevant when I want something NOW and that isn't often.
What I have done is upgrade my home system which was getting a bit aged. I added a cloud drive (3TB) which has gigabit Ethernet to my new gigabit router which is wired to my gigabit PC. The other things attached like the TV tuner, laptop and the likes are limited to just fast Ethernet as that is there limit. The modem is connect by gigabit to the router so I have spare ports if I need them.
The modem can do wireless but only up to N. The tablet can do AC so now I have an nice fast connection of about 440 Mbps by turning off that wireless and using the router.
The TV and the Blu-ray can take advantage of the higher speed links in the 5G range so that takes congestion off the 2.4 for the phone and wireless on the laptop.
The phone is my sons so I have service from him on T-mobile. I connect to the network at home via wireless and plug in the usb to charge and sometime exchange data/pictures but the wireless works as well. I do have a data plan so if I'm traveling or need it I can turn it on but at home I leave it off. Even while using it out I tell it to use just G2 service. Phone and messages is unlimited but I think I do have a data limit but I have yet to reach that the way I use it.
Having everything networked together and being able to access things is nice and now that it is faster it is even better. I've been enjoying watching TV on the tablet with the 10.1" screen. Put it up on its stand and watch in bed sometime when I having trouble sleeping even.
We don't have cable but we get a bunch of channels most of which I don't ever watch. Most of our watching is PBS with a few other channels depending on the programs we feel like watching. I'd say the main TV is only on about 2 hours a day if that. I do catch some other things on the home run tuners and the PC or tablet but not a lot of that either.
Life is good on this account.
The decision to try and substitute a tablet for a laptop wasn't a good one. What has happened is the tablet has a place in our home now but I will have to get a new laptop to replace our old model who has now stated to loose the mouse pointer after recovering from sleep mode.... I still need the pc functions and I'm sorry but a tablet is not that capable.
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robinson46176 wrote:I am looking for a new internet provider... We use the Verizon mobile wifi hotspot and it works just fine. I like being able to drop it in my pocket and have access anywhere even while going down the road out of state (not while driving ). I have never had any problem at all with speed. My complaint is that it is limited to 5 gig a month without extra charges and that makes it too high. It's $50 a month base and $10 for each additional gig. Back when we started using it we never ran over even though we were both on-line a lot and a grandson was here daily after school daily and was gaming. Now just my wife and I run over about every month. Today's internet just loves to waste bandwidth. We used to watch a few videos now and then. Now we never watch any videos. No streaming anything. If we really want to see a video we watch it on our smart phones which are unlimited. Kind of hard to see sometimes.
They did update from 3-G to 4-G which seems to waste even more bandwidth. Facebook is a terrible bandwidth waster especially after they started pre-loading videos and it was also running them if you passed over them. I blocked the playing with a browser option but I have not been able to block the pre-loading. Most of my spread out family contact is through there as well as a few occupational sites. Not what I want but it wouldn't be so bad if FB cared at all about bandwidth usage. Pretty much all websites seem to think that it is OK to waste our usage but Verizon has not kept up with what the web is today. A couple of months ago Verizon said that we used 13 gigs... but then they did a software update on the wifi unit and the overage went away.
A lot of the problem is people that have unlimited service and use hundreds of gigs a month even when they are not using it for anything, like playing music all the time even when they are not home which drives up cost. I'm now reading that more and more services are putting on data caps for new customers again.
AT&T has been promising DSL "any day now" for a number of years. Once they said "as soon as it gets warm enough to pour a concrete pad" (on the next road west of us). Obviously they were lying through their teeth. That was about 3 years ago.
Shrug...
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Our TV is by satellite, basic Direct... You know what that is: 140 channels, about 12 of which don't just totally suck... That contract is up in February but I don't know what to do there either. Nobody will give you a straight answer, everything is some kind of gimmick pricing and the truth tends to not be very important to the reps.
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We use Straight Talk for our phone service, $45 each with unlimited talk - text - web and we have been quite happy with it for some time. We did away with the land line some time back. We made sure that the smart phones we bought used Verizon lines and we get very reliable service (except for some odd reason not inside of Wal-mart's automotive dept. ). Our service is far better that a lot of folks we know that are on very expensive contract plans.
). I have never had any problem at all with speed. My complaint is that it is limited to 5 gig a month without extra charges and that makes it too high. It's $50 a month base and $10 for each additional gig. Back when we started using it we never ran over even though we were both on-line a lot and a grandson was here daily after school daily and was gaming. Now just my wife and I run over about every month. Today's internet just loves to waste bandwidth. We used to watch a few videos now and then. Now we never watch any videos. No streaming anything. If we really want to see a video we watch it on our smart phones which are unlimited. Kind of hard to see sometimes.
That was about 3 years ago.
). Our service is far better that a lot of folks we know that are on very expensive contract plans.