Internet in the Country

[truckdiagnostics]

I have a bit of a different issue. I CAN get high speed internet from TWC, but it's 1300 feet from the road and they want a small fortune to run the cable (and I apparently am not allowed to run it).

Looking at the Ubiquiti Networks link, I wonder if they could run it to a box 100 feet from the road and then I could line of sight the distance to the house? For those that have used that method, how expensive is it?

Ubiquiti easy to use and cheap. Company running our line of site radios switched from ubiquiti to motorala didn't work well, switched back. Issue you are going to have is power, which can be worked around, they don't draw that much. The issue you will have is getting TWC willing to run to a box. I was able to work things out with charter cable to run to a box, step up a commercial account and almost started internet company. The issue was the silo is a long ways up. I then told the company in the town over you do it or I will. The used the same silo, but just bounced there signal.

 

[ultrarunner]

The two providers are a Federal requirement with the new healthcare regulations. In talking to my doctor who just set up his medical center in town; he is using a cable provider for his primary ISP and AT&T for the back up. As a side note he is using FREE over the air digital TV for the waiting rooms because the "commercial account" charges for cable TV was too high. He is a pretty tech savvy guy...

SimS

I've got a Radio Shack antenna on the Hospital roof and it works great... no charges either and the antenna cost $20 back in 1995.

 

[truckdiagnostics]

All I can tell you is we are building fiber fed DSLAMS out in the country and these funds are helping fund that. They will never pay for themselves due to the low density of subscribers at the rates that subscribers are charged. So lets be clear here, when you move to the country you expect good internet service. WHY? Why do you deserve a service that you are not paying enough for? Because we are Americans and have a God given right to broadband? Well your government agrees with you. And this is exactly what we are doing. Taking Federal money and building in areas that would never pay out otherwise. So to be clear here, the taxpayers of the nation are paying for your broadband out in the country, cause sure as heck the monthly subscriber fees are not paying for it.

Company close to here Bugnet, basically went through with what I looked at, basically providing rural internet with no tax dollars. Asked him, "why aren't you advertising and doing more?" His answer, in a few years the big guys that can get the funding are going to push me out of business, so I am going to make the money I can with little investment! Mercury net which made the investment, our wireless provider, signal starts out almost 40 miles away on the hospital in the city then they bounce the signal all over. Works well and they do it for starting at $39 a month, so it can be done and be done cost effective with out tax dollars. In some towns they are actually competting with charter net(cable provider)There is another guy i know doing it up north. Started the someway bugnet did, he needed it then sold it to his neighbors. he has a full time IT job in town. They all use ubiquiti by the way. The wireless is fussy but once you get the bugs out works well. That would be why we have the sat back up, router switches over when primary drops out and sends me e mail when it does it. I am NO IT guy, mechanic by trade and I figured it out. Biggest thing not being afraid of heights and being young enough to climb the silos. On the silo I mentioned above, mercury net installed new ladder on the silo, original was the rebar rungs.

 

[Scrambler82]

SoCal... Try Accel Internet you can stream two movies at once for about $60/month.

No cable at my location, I can have a hard wired landline but no cable, WT?..., sat internet is Hughes, no good, never stayed up long enough.
Found Accel via a neighbor, would like something a little cheaper but I can live with the $60.

I get all kinds of mail for cable TV and Internet suppliers but when I called for info I am told we do not service that area.

Glad to be with Accelerate for now.

 

[Scrambler82]

SoCal... Try Accel Wireless, you can stream two movies at once for about $60/month.

No cable at my location, I can have a hard wired landline but no cable, WT?..., sat internet is Hughes, no good, never stayed up long enough.
Found Accel via a neighbor, would like something a little cheaper but I can live with the $60.

I get all kinds of mail for cable TV and Internet suppliers but when I called for info I am told we do not service that area.

Glad to be with Accelerate for now.

 

[jack707]

I cant wait to get rid of DISH internet their thief's - just my onion.

 

[kcflhrc]

I work from home, so I *must* have high speed...not DSL or dial-up, etc. The business option is interesting...

DSL is High Speed Internet.

 

[k0ua]

DSL is High Speed Internet.

Yes. Where did this idea that DSL was not high speed come from? We have
Offerings up to 100 meg. Granted100 meg is pretty short distance. But the 50 and even the 75 work out to very useful distances. And the 25 meg is down right lengthy. The key takeaways here guys is getting a DSLAM built in the area.

 

[ultrarunner]

I run the entire Hospital Business Office and Hospital Admitting on DSL... never an issue and at least 25 computers on at any one time...

 

[kcflhrc]

Yes. Where did this idea that DSL was not high speed come from?

I honestly have no idea. Do you work for the local Telco in Branson?