Map to Rivergate Church in Adobe Acrobat

"Regular" Meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the Month at 1:30 to 3:30PM.  The Board Meeting's are on the 3rd Tuesday of the Month in Medford at 1:00 pm in  the Masonic Lodge 975 North Phoenix Rd. across the street from the Albertson Shopping Center. ALL-members are welcome to join us. "Visitors" are always welcome.

  Meetings In Medford

    Map to  the Masonic Lodge in Adobe Acrobat

"Regular" Meetings are on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the Month at 1:30 to 4:00pm The workshops start at 2:30pm in the afternoon till 4:00pm. The Board Meeting's are  on the 3rd Tuesday of the Month in Medford at 1:00 pm  in the Library of the Masonic Lodge 975 North Phoenix Rd., across the street from the Albertson Shopping Center. ALL-members are welcome to join us. "Visitors" are always welcome.

 

---

 Medford Aces "Happenings"

Clearwire Wireless Internet

  Clearwire arrived in town with a different technique to get the Internet to you without wires added to your home. They use a Broadcast of Wireless Internet over the airwaves they have a Transmitter locally in Medford runs about 25 watts on 2.5 GHZ using the Cell Towers and the Manor for height with relay stations in Jacksonville, Central Point, and Medford they re-transmit it over the Valley on Cell Towers.

Cost is comparable to DSL "Telephone", they use the Telephone lines... "wires again", or cable for the TV more wires... with non English speaking Customer Service Personnel. 

You could conceivably use their Modem on the road if you were the passenger. It would not be very smart to use it to check your e-mail while driving like some do with their Cell phones ! There is one drawback that they want you to sign up for a year or two. I think it will be an advantage for me because I can bring my modem and hookup to my computer at the ACES and really have it up and running in an instant.  All you need is a open Ethernet port on your Computer and it's off and running at 256kbps upload and 500 kbps to 2.0kbbs download. They do have higher speeds but they are lots more expensive like $50/Month + the lease of Modem $5:00 extra. 

I have a proprietary modem from them because I was in a fringe area according to them so you could buy it, if you wanted to, not me at $300 bucks its' a excellent commercial product and has worked flawlessly for me although it's built for outside use and I had to put it on a pole because of trees in the way of the signal. 

I also have V.O.I.P. Phone I also have been having trouble with numbers "I did not ask for" showing up on my phone from car company's trying to sell me insurance so the Clearwire phone has the ability to block them and I am starting a list of numbers to put into the Clearwire phone where I can block them from getting here, Thank God. 

Their local number in Medford area is 541-890-0001                                           

   I the webmaster will be fielding on-line web sessions, or anything the audience at my table would wish to ask, within my field of knowledge so don't be afraid to ask questions, I am not afraid to tell you "I DON'T KNOW", because sometimes I don't. 

I also have been playing with a new program "not windows based" it's called "LINUX" and it's a free program you can download from the Internet.  It is composed of FREE programs and lots of them but the big thing is it's very different than Windows programs so its a new learning set of problems and it could take some University classes to really learn it unless you are really motivated to go to the books for a degree with it. If you know how to run "LINUX" then there is a job for you out there, especially if you can program with it.

 If you are having problems with your Computer the best place to go is to your "PROVIDER" if they are local. My provider has the capability of helping you over the phone anytime 11 hrs, 9Am to 10Pm 7days per week. Other Providers can't do that for you and probably won't, either, that's been my experience. So think about why you have a provider, they should handle your problems for you... hey its their business, if they are to stay in business for the long haul...! By the way they also "SPEAK ENGLISH" and they are here in the U.S.A. thanks Clearwire for your fore-thought in this area. Good job.