WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices

Brett Glass writes "Feel like you're stuck with a no-win choice between expensive cable modem service and slow DSL for Internet? Currently using satellite, with long latencies that make it impossible to do VoIP or interactive gaming? One of America's best kept secrets, so it seems, is the wide coverage of WISPs — terrestrial (not satellite or cellular) wireless broadband Internet providers. The linked article gives an overview of WISPs and provides a handy map showing their nationwide coverage (more than 750,000 square miles of the continental US — and only about one third of the WISPs in the US are on the map so far). Most WISPs are small, independent, consumer-friendly, and tech savvy, making them a better choice than big, corporate ISPs who can't even tell a penny from a dollar."

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Re:They work well too

[commodore64_love]

>>>I would get AT&T with their DSL package. I do not want a phone line.
>>>I just want fast, always on, reasonably priced internet.

I have a phone line; I love it; it works even when the snow or ice topples the power lines. Cellphones do not (no power == no receiving tower == no service). But anyway..... Because you have this weird fetish against phone lines or DSL lines, you expect your neighbors to cough-up money from their wallets and BUY YOU a wireless upgrade (aka "stimulus package"). That political philosophy is, and please pardon my language, fraked up. Nobody owes you anything. Stop stealing money from your neighbors wallets, so you can enrich yourself with their money.

You (and others like you) have access to cheap broadband via DSL, and you simply chose not to get it. That's nobody's fault but yourself.