POLL: Your type of internet connection

[PILOON]

Dial up!
and no provider is interested in bettering our situation due to lack of population density.
Cable wants one user per phone pole as a minimum average.
While our area is beautiful to the point of being an EDEN it does have drawbacks.
Just too many mountains and not dense enough population.
And all this only one hour from Montreal!
BUT we can ski, hunt and fish from the front door.

 

[buck12]

H comcast cable

 

[D33r3 6r33N]

H DSL
Though the cable pipeline runs right in front of the house. They kept sendings us postcard and junk in the mail, so I called them a couple years ago. "Sir, we can't offer cable to you because there is not enough population in your area." I said, "Well, you may want to stop wasting your money with these advertisements then."
Haven't seen one since. Probably will not ever (don't think I would take it anyway) be able to get it as I want to buy the 400' of road frontage between me and the side road.

Just wonder what is going to be more popular when 4g gets a better foothold?

 

[MicroPilot]

H - Canopy Wireless - 1024/384

 

[ragkar]

D = dial up because of the distance from the switching station.
However sometimes I put the laptop in the car and go out and hijack someone's wifi. I've found that half of them are open access.
By the way, the government defines hi-speed as 4Mbps minimum.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

We have DSL, Verizon Five Spot and the Droid X has it own Verizon connection.

 

[JD755]

H - DSL

6016 Kbps (downstream)
768 Kbps (upstream)

 

[LostInTheWoods]

Dial up!
and no provider is interested in bettering our situation due to lack of population density.

There's hope for everyone suffering slow connection speed (at least in the States)...the National Broadband Plan:

The National Broadband Plan: Connecting America

You can even report your area as being a "deadzone" on this site...

"The Broadband Dead Zone Reporting Form provides your household with the opportunity to voluntarily participate in the FCC's effort to pinpoint areas in the United States where Americans are unserved or underserved by broadband access".

Government programs, being what they are, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for high speed service. But at least there's hope.

 

[KubotainNH]

If there was anything I'd like to see stimulous money go to it would be upgrading the power grid and making broadband more available. Here's my speed test from home. Don't add me to the poll seeing I'm already on here

 

[riptides]

There's hope for everyone suffering slow connection speed (at least in the States)...the National Broadband Plan:

The National Broadband Plan: Connecting America

IMHO the plan is a joke. And the FCC, well no comment.

Here is my example, there are of course many, many more....

I live between two fiber-trunks. One is about 1220 feet away. Yet I have no fiber based service. Why is that? The telco operators business model does not support hooking me up.

As soon as the telcos, sat and cable operations business models support the geo-dispersed customer bases at a profit point, you may get the high speed service.

Until then, welcome to the third-world. High Speed communications in this country is a joke for the most part. Great example for our kids.