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Moving to no mans land aka paradise.. Internet options suggestions needed! - SweetlyExiledFromSuburbia

Posted: Oct 21, 2010

I am only able to find a privately owned local phone company in this small town to offer Internet, through the phone, requires a landline (which I really did not need). Pricing: $100. For 750 min long distance, call waiting, caller ID, DSL - 3MB. VERY expensive just for internet and phone line!

Insane...ALL calls ANYWHERE except within just two small communities within 5 miles of our new house are long distance! So, we will be using our cell phones for all calls.

There are no other companies that service our address. I tried AT&T, Consolidated Com, Home-Tel, Charter, Comcast, Verizon.

Does anyone know of satellite companies that would offer service in rural areas?

I'm in the same boat. - sm

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I've heard that Wild Blue works, or Charter...

But if you have cell service, what I would look into is the mobile broadband. I have Verizon cell service, and they have a mobile broadband 'card' that you can stick in your laptop (or desktop) and have service from anywhere you have cell service. I don't know all the in's and out's as so far I am still with my local phone company.

I have Hughes - Oracle

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I loathe it. I pay $75/month for mediocre service at best that is degraded with the wind. There are limits on how much you can download between the hours of 7 a.m. and 2 a.m., so I dare not watch much more than 10 minutes of video anywhere at all (forget using your Netflix watch-now things). Fortunately, my work does not apparently count as a download, but it does take it a while to do whatever it is doing. Also, some companies will not accept satellite internet; not exactly sure why because I've not found one yet that it didn't work with.

In disgust after three years I tried to get any of the cell companies and use the plug-in internet, but unfortunately the cell reception is not sufficient to sustain the internet. Admittedly, my general cell service is not great to begin with, but I could hear the guffaws in the background when I called both AT&T and Verizon to inquire.

working over satellite - satellite savy

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I had this problem with a satellite. If you are trying to type in a hospital system, you realize that each keystroke has to go to a satellite and bounce back into their system? The only way I could make it work was to type the document in word and then copy it into the hospital system's document. That was only a make do -- and I had to work for a while to get that to work. Another problem with working over satellite is security. While the original poster said she had never had a problem -- I had lots of problems and actually only one company I worked for accepted satellite. Be sure to check with the company you want to work with to see if they accept satellite -- most of them DO NOT.

I live in the same place. lol - nn

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I am with a local wireless company who services this area and surrounding rural areas where I live. Thank goodness I have them because there is no DSL or Cable available here, except for satellite and I'd rather have dial up if i had to use satellite. Satellite is terrible.

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