Love it. Just from the sign, I can picture the decayed midcentury modernity of this lovely motel.

I figured that it was still relevant. Actually, I found this post because I was looking for the official account of the ISP. They used to be active on that other platform, which shall go unnamed. It seems they don’t post here.

Sorry to hear that. When there is an outage, I look at this map, which you may already be familiar with. An area overlaid by red diagonal lines is a PG&E outage. If you see a large number in an area near you, that is probably a transmitter failure.

www.monkeybrains.net/map/

If that neighbor hasn’t already called about this problem, I think they should. I’m not sure if their antenna needs to be repositioned, or anchored better, or what the problem is, but they should definitely reach out to Monkeybrains support about this problem.

Before I got Monkeybrains five years ago, I read comments on Yelp about outages during rain, so I’ve been on the lookout for this. I’m happy to report that although there’ve been some torrential rains and high winds, I’ve never lost service, or experienced slow speeds during storms. Not once!

Had Sonic and liked them but can’t get their fiber where I am, so switched to Monkeybrains five years ago. Get between 80 - 120 Mbps down and have been happy. Outages have been few and short and always due to a PG&E outage. Their privacy policy is trustworthy like Sonic’s.

And the person answering knew too, as Evan says. Everybody knew that long distance was expensive, so if someone called you long distance, you didn’t waste their time. You got the person they were calling on the phone ASAP, got on with your call quickly, and didn’t linger.

The way he describes it is spot on. When making a long distance call, sometimes you’d hear the MF tones sent through the tandem, then click-click (pause), another click and the carrier noise would come on before the ringing started. As soon as you heard that noise, you knew you were connected.