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Time to Enter Our
Directory Cover
Photo Contest
The deadline is Friday, October 6,
2017, to enter the 2018 Southeast
Kansas Area Directory Cover Photo
Contest! SKT customers in Atlanta,
Beaumont, Burden, Cambridge,
Dexter, Elk Falls, Grenola, Latham,
Longton, Piedmont, Reece, and
Rosalia are invited to send photos that
represent the beauty of Kansas, taken
within these areas that SKT serves.
Photos may be uploaded directly
to , start-
ing at the SKT NEWS tab, or they
may be emailed to sktdirectory@
. Prints may be
mailed to SKT Directory Contest,
PO Box 800, Clearwater, KS, 67026,
or brought to the SKT Solution
Center at 112 S. Lee in Clearwater.
Include the photographer’s name,
address, and phone number, and
a brief description of the photo(s).
Prints will be returned if requested.
Up to three photos may be entered
per customer.
We’ll announce the contest results in
mid-October. The first-place winner
will receive $100 from SKT and that
photo will be printed on the front
cover of the new directories. The
second- and third-place winners will
receive $50 and $25, respectively.
All entered photographs will be dis-
played at ,
along with past years’ submissions.
Last year’s winning photos
were so spectacular and
went together so well that
we put all three on the
cover. Congratulations,
again, to Kerri Koeppen of
Dexter, Stephanie Easton
of Beaumont, and Diane
Hahn of Burden.
Don’t Let
Bandwidth
Hogs Cause
Household
Battles
Does this sound familiar? Your son is making a hefty download of the latest video
game while your daughter is watching YouTube videos and your wife is streaming a
movie. Meanwhile, you’re trying to get some work done from home, and notice that your
laptop’s Internet connection seems to have slowed to a crawl when you attempt to Skype
with a colleague. Before long, a bandwidth battle ensues over who’s a bandwidth hog and
which online activities should get priority.
As a reminder, bandwidth refers to the amount of data that may be transferred over an
Internet connection per second. Every Internet connection has a specified maximum
bandwidth—usually measured in bits per second, such as 10 Mbps—and this bandwidth
is shared by all the users and connected devices in a household. This includes background
Internet usage such as software that automatically updates.
You can think of bandwidth as a highway with vehicles traveling on it; the highway is
the Internet connection and the vehicles are the data. The wider the highway, the more
vehicles can travel on it at one time and the faster they get to their destinations. The same
principle applies to data—the more bandwidth, the more information that can be trans-
ferred within a given amount of time.
When your home’s bandwidth isn’t adequate for simultaneous use by several bandwidth
hogs engaged in streaming, gaming, and video chatting, everyone in the family may expe-
rience slower Internet speeds. That’s when frustrations can grow and bandwidth battles
can occur.
In the interest of promoting family harmony, SKT recommends you upgrade your Internet
plan. That way, you can all get the speed you need and won’t have to argue over who must
curtail their online activity to free up bandwidth for someone else.
SKT offers several family-friendly Internet plans to fit your needs.
For help in choosing the best option, call SKT Customer Care at
888.758.8976 or visit to get started.