Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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I’m so frustrated with nothing in the stores. I do love the convenience of ordering online but it’s frustrating or clothes and shoes and having to return them. I hope it gets faster so you can get pups treats.
I’ve had crawling internet from the beginning. About a year ago we got a Verizon tower about a mile down the road & I rarely connect to our internet on my phone. But, in the last two months even the 5G was glitching. It didn’t matter what search engine I used, until I switched to Brave. For some reason it’s not as slow. I don’t like everything about it but it seems faster.
We ordered starlink and have been running it about two weeks. And now we believe brightspeed (should be brightcrawl) is bringing fiber. I leave the printer on and anything else that’s connected to WiFi. Before nothing that requires WiFi was on constantly except the TV. I highly recommend it. It’s a cost an upfront cost to order it. We wanted it for a long time and put it off because it cost more. Finally decided we were paying years for something useless. It was our Christmas present to each other. I don’t remember how much. It’s laying on the ground until we get a mounting bracket. Can’t imagine it getting any better. It’s in 200 range and for twenty years we have barely had a speed of 8.
My son got our Starlink about 5 years ago and we never looked back. It has run perfectly since, and, we kept it on our front lawn, there it sits, through snow rain ice and hail. He got it the same time I had spent thousands on a new roof, and I was worried about mounting it and causing issues with the roof, so we left it on the ground. The only maintenance it needs is keeping the grass short around it, and moving snow from around the edges of it when the snow gets deep, it melts all the ice off of it, as it does remain warm. It is a wise investment.
That’s a nice gift & great story! It’s good to know we didn’t make a mistake. My husband is big into cb, ham & gmrs radio & one side of the house has post in the ground with antennas. He will mount it on one of those poles. I created a monster. I told him for almost two years to get a cb in case the 💩 hit the fan. It’s cool as hard as he works he deserves to enjoy it.
My Dad was a ham! Talk about antennas, he bought this enormously high one, in a residential area in Queens. The neighbors freaked out some.
I bet they freaked out🤩 I used to love NYC area. Only been once during the late 80s for a day each time. Hope it gets cleaned up so I go again.
We don’t live in a neighborhood. All my family is side by side. In rural eastern NC. Antennas are the least of whats in this area. Neighbors across the one big family like us several homes. One guy shoots his gun all hours of the night. At least he’s not close enough for stray bullets. We shoot also but not at night. They gotta be drunk. We each own our own property. They don’t care. I’d rather see antenna farm than trash piles at a house. I know people like that.
You might like this. Man having meltdown over wind chimes. Stupid people on instagram are my therapy😆
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRpWTgQEWrp/
We're very interested in getting Starlink also...