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Post by kbiddle on Jan 29, 2008 8:13:14 GMT -5
Just looking for some feedback on what folks have as far as INTERNET connectivity in your rural locations. One of the thing that I have found seems there are really no option in as far as any type of broadband (High Speed) option. Dial-up or Hughes or wild-blue Satellite certainly not high speed. Also if there was an option for HS where you are located would you buy it? Any and all input is welcome...
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Post by danf on Jan 29, 2008 8:24:28 GMT -5
I guess we are considered rural, but we've got DSL. We are about 8-9 road miles from the hub, I would guess, which is evidently close enough.
From what I understand, high-speed satellite is rather expensive.
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Post by dbd870 on Jan 29, 2008 8:50:07 GMT -5
It's dail-up or satellite as my only options and the dish is more than I'm willing to pay. It still beats living in town.
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Post by freedomhunter on Jan 29, 2008 9:12:47 GMT -5
hughes net at 60/month, dial up works as a backup, but is only 26k at best. The satellite works well most times depending on traffic and the weather. It can be frustrating, but the only game in town for now. I've heard that aircards (cellular) are maybe progressing a little.
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Post by raporter on Jan 29, 2008 9:25:21 GMT -5
Just my opinion here. There is no excuse for the US to not have high speed coverage everywhere just like we have phone and electric service. When you read that everyone in Japan and South Korea plus other countries I do not recall have this for everyone it makes me wonder if we have lost our way as world leaders. Now to answer the question. We have a hispeed (?) service that is beamed to our neighborhood antennae. When it works it is pretty good but it is down probably 25% of the time so we have to have a dialup backup. Some of the neighbors have sattelite and they went with our system too because theirs was down even more. WAKE UP AMERICA!
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Jan 29, 2008 9:31:37 GMT -5
It's dail-up or satellite as my only options and the dish is more than I'm willing to pay. It still beats living in town. Ditto!
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Post by chicobrownbear on Jan 29, 2008 10:44:49 GMT -5
I know my county has something called Citizen's Broadband. www.c3bb.com/about.htmThey put antennas on existing structures that are tall (watertowers mostly). I know they just got something like it going in Jennings county as well.
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Post by raporter on Jan 29, 2008 10:54:52 GMT -5
This would be similar to what we have. The signals are beamed from tower to tower.
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Post by indianahick on Jan 29, 2008 11:15:15 GMT -5
Just my opinion here. There is no excuse for the US to not have high speed coverage everywhere just like we have phone and electric service. When you read that everyone in Japan and South Korea plus other countries I do not recall have this for everyone it makes me wonder if we have lost our way as world leaders.
How do you make those neat little boxes around your quotes? I agree heartily. Cellular is not that good yet. Lots of dead air places. Caves and tunnels aside I understand why they don't work. I had to get road runner because I could not get DSL which was less than a mile from me. Road Runner is expensive but still better than dial up.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Jan 29, 2008 11:18:49 GMT -5
I have Hughes Satellite. I have the middle package which is almost as good as cable. Cable is not available in my area nor DSL. So it's satellite or 16K dialup. Even cellphone sucks in my area too.
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Post by kbiddle on Jan 29, 2008 11:19:11 GMT -5
Hey for you guys that have the wireless from the tower how good is the connection and also is there any equipment that they have to install on-site?
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Post by danf on Jan 29, 2008 11:53:58 GMT -5
How do you make those neat little boxes around your quotes? See the "quote" button at the top-right corner of the message? Click that button and it will take you to "advanced" mode of posting. Anything that you do not want to quote can be deleted, the quote will be between two sets of brackets (it'll look something like this: [ quote]...words....[ /quote] but without the spaces inside the brackets). HTH.
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Post by ActionPoint on Jan 29, 2008 14:30:45 GMT -5
I would suggest avoiding Wild Blue. The service is plagued with issues and there aren't enough experienced technicians yet to provide the necessary support when you do have problems. Give it a few years and it will be a much faster and more reliable product.
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Post by drs on Jan 29, 2008 14:33:53 GMT -5
I live north of Evansville, and have Insight Broadband. When I started using a computer, 10 years ago, I was on "dial-up". I am paying $30 per Month for Broadband service. However, a lot of people, living in Vanderburgh County, are still on "dial-up" with either Evansville-online or another provider like "AOL".
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Post by kevin1 on Jan 29, 2008 14:58:12 GMT -5
While broadband from Verizon is available here they'll only run it a max of 160', anything over that you have to rent a ditch witch and run some coaxial cable out to where they'll pick up the rest. My driveway is roughly 450', so for now broadband isn't a viable option. We currently have Earthlink via dial up. Tower broadband is supposedly coming to us out here in Podunk, but so far it's just whispers.
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Post by raporter on Jan 29, 2008 16:10:24 GMT -5
Hey for you guys that have the wireless from the tower how good is the connection and also is there any equipment that they have to install on-site? Our system brings the signal to a central location and then it is brought to our house via a neighborhood cable. Sometimes it works great, sometime slower than dial up and sometime not at all. One of our neighbors is pretty good with electronics and he keeps it going. The nearest real technician we know of lives in Pennsylvania.
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Post by meecedb on Jan 29, 2008 20:15:41 GMT -5
We have wild blue it works almost all the time,and is faster than dial up,its 50.00 a month the only time it does not work when it is raining real hard,it is high speed as i can get.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Jan 29, 2008 20:19:10 GMT -5
Light years ahead of dial up, but not T1.
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Post by greg on Jan 29, 2008 21:17:16 GMT -5
Broadcast tower wireless. I'm 5 crow miles from the nearest tower, but service has been flawless and blazing fast.
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Post by drgreyhound on Jan 30, 2008 5:53:10 GMT -5
I do not disagree with you, but to play devil's advocate--Japan and South Korea are much smaller geographically than the United States, plus their population densities on average are much higher, so it's much more economically reasonable for them to offer high-speed access anywhere in their countries.
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