i appreciate the input. i'm sure yáll know there's lots of unsecured wifi connection at r'sons. like i said, my 1st time there i logged onto a (i think) bookstore and it was fast but since then i haven't been able to find a good connection so i use my smart-slo stick which is a 'reasonable' speed when in duma. at home, rural saiton, i have ''service not available'' ½ of the time, no service about ¼ of the time and yawnnnn the other ¼ but it's better than no-thing until i can get a place of my own. i just don't understand how it can be service not available one moment and working the next moment. there was 3 weeks last month when i had to go into saiton once a day to log-on with the stick, i finally called them and they made a ''remote adjustment'' (within 24 hours : ) and it worked pretty good for 3 days, then back to ''normal.'' i think they need to tighten the bailing wire on their antenna. norm : ))~
They suck more day by day... since a month or so even google itself blocks IP's from globe most of the time