The internet is another story. When we moved into the National Park in 1998 in a little village, Stehekin, we had only one telephone supported by the Park Service in the valley, and we had to wait in line to use it. There was a long delay, and because of other people waiting to use the phone we could not have any long conversations. There was no internet possible there at that time. A few years later the technology was developed for 2 way satellite communication and the internet. We were not the first to get connected but we were not long after. Then even though my computer was not very old, it was not capable of getting on the internet with the satellite, so I had to buy another computer. Then after a few years I bought this computer refurbished, for very little money, and the best computer I ever bought.
When we moved we brought our satellite with us, and we have been using it ever since. Each time I would sign a contract for the internet it got cheaper until now it is at its cheapest for us. When we had to move the satellite dish here from over at the kids' house I had to have someone come to realign it, and reconfigure everything, and adjust it so that it would beam in on the satellite. We had modem trouble for a while, and I have one new modem because we didn't think this one was working, but it is! Tech. people couldn't get it to work when it should have, and nothing was wrong with it. For a while I was afraid when the electriciy failed that it would not come back on aftrer the electricity came back on, but it has each time.
What happens lately is that when the dish gets covered with snow or ice, we lose our reception, and then I have to clean the snow off to get the internet back on, but that is a small problem, and it works good enough.
