I live in a Rural Area and there is no DSL anymore since Oct09 and no Cable for the outlining area in a city total of around 14,000 people. The Choices are Dial-up, Satellite Internet, 3G, WISP. I was on Dial-up for 1 year then 3G for 1 year then I found a WISP provider called WISPrenn that is Point to Point Wireless I get 1ms to tower then on Speedtest.net 16-27ms ping to a LA Server. I pay $56 for 5Mbps Download 600-700Kbps upload and 75GB/s amonth and I am a Gamer. I talked to my ISP and they say that ALOT of there customers are Gamers for a Company that started in 09 by someone that his family thought he was crazy. The person that lives next to us was one of the lucky ones with DSL and speeds around 1-2Mbps but my Wireless is Faster and Less laggy then the DSL were when you ping google on the DSL it is 90ms ping.
There is no DSL, Cable, ISDN available also ISDN is super expensive because Telephone companies don't want to provide it. Were I live there is only Satellite Internet"Crappy and expenseive", WISP"IF a heavy bandwidth or poweruser you pay about $120US amonth on top of a $100 install", Dial-up 46.6Kbps w/ very high corruption, 3G "limited with connections". I am on 3G right now with Virgin Mobile 3G because the this is all I can afford because I can't afford Dial-up or Satellite internet because I am on limited income, when I was on Dial-up I was paying a total $80 permonth $70 for phone line and $10 for Dial-up ISP. I had no other choice but to move up here back in Oct 09 because my rent is Cheap, I would like to move to a town with Broadband but with me being on limited income I can't afford the Rent. In my area I moved up here in Oct 09 before I moved there was DSL I checked before like anyone does they check for broadband but then After I moved and got settled Verizon said sorry all we can offer you is Dial-up because the Central office is pack and now when people cancel there DSL they are not opening back up the Slots for some one else and leaving the area with Dial-up. I am in Phelan, CA and is a Rural Area and People want something better then Satellite internet or expensive WISP or Dial-up or 3G. You people in a city with Broadband need to experiance being in a Rural area before you pass that Rural areas get the short end of the stick. Keep in mind Rural Area people can't do services that they want to do like Youtube or maybe netflix, hulu, vudu. Also keep in mind there are people in Rural areas with Bluray players now and those bluray players need Firmware updates and can be 60MB+ try to do that over Dial-up.
Also keep in mind since Big broadband Companies didn't want to go into Rural even to expand slowly it now Costs WAY MORE to get the Rural Areas equal to an area that has broadband the Cost is more and Coming around and Kicking the Big Broadband Companies in the butt.
I have seen over price before I was using Virgin Mobile for my Main ISP I was on Dial-up in a rural area that the modem only connected at 46.6Kbps and it was $70US for landline and $10 for Dial-up ISP. or there is always companys like WildBlue Satellite internet it is near $80 for 1.5Mbps down.and only 17GB a month or even Hughesnet that has a max Daily usage of max 500MB
keep in mind 4G would be great in areas that can ONLY get Dial-up because broadband is not available at all. Also 4G is cheaper then satellite internet to were for Satellite is about 1.5Mbps download 17GB cap and near $80 for wildblue and you can't do Video Game at all because it does not do realtime transfers at all.
4G from sprint would be great in the area were I live at home I can only get 56Kbps dial-up because i am in a area that is rural, and the only landline provider in my area is Verizon and it is still all copper lines. Verizon has basicly the monopoly of my whole town and they don't want to update my area to add more DSL slots. basicly any one just moving to the area can only get Dial-up no matter were they are in the city even if they move 300 feet from the switching station they can only get dial-up.
Big brother one it way to a school near you. I think we should do this to School officials and Government officials. The Students should have a Ubuntu live CD so that they can go off the record.
Were I live I can only get Dial-up 46.6Kbps connection because I am in a rural area in California. I am at a buddy's house right now with a Cable net connection I am downloading as much podcasts and video media as I can before I have to go back to Dial-up.
as a personal note I have been waiting for a Verizon DSL slot to open up were I live for about 4 months now since I moved. I am within range for DSL.
Kids can take out there PSPs and Gameboys outside in the sun or the parents could setup a Wii Game station outside in the back yard if they have a back yard, Wii Console in a enclosure and a Old CRT TV with the top covered.
I can across this today and I decided to but in my 2 cents. Recently I moved from a town that had DSL and Cabel internet. To a rural area I did check for DSL and it was available but by the time I got moved and a mailing address all the slots got filled for DSL at the switching station because the telecom does not want to update the switching station to get more slots and I have Dial-up right now I have been waiting for DSL for over 3 months. When I moved and got stuck on Dial-up I had to give up PC Gaming, Playstation 3 Gaming, Ventrilo, Podcast, Internet TV and Radio like TWiT Live, youtube, manageing a Podcast Site, and a PC Backup Service. So I hate being on Dial-up and satellite I would hit the threshold of 17GBs a month from one company for traffic and you can't game.
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I live in a Rural Area and there is no DSL anymore since Oct09 and no Cable for the outlining area in a city total of around 14,000 people. The Choices are Dial-up, Satellite Internet, 3G, WISP. I was on Dial-up for 1 year then 3G for 1 year then I found a WISP provider called WISPrenn that is Point to Point Wireless I get 1ms to tower then on Speedtest.net 16-27ms ping to a LA Server. I pay $56 for 5Mbps Download 600-700Kbps upload and 75GB/s amonth and I am a Gamer. I talked to my ISP and they say that ALOT of there customers are Gamers for a Company that started in 09 by someone that his family thought he was crazy. The person that lives next to us was one of the lucky ones with DSL and speeds around 1-2Mbps but my Wireless is Faster and Less laggy then the DSL were when you ping google on the DSL it is 90ms ping.
another to know I can't barely do a 16Kbps sustain Audio Stream on my 3G
There is no DSL, Cable, ISDN available also ISDN is super expensive because Telephone companies don't want to provide it. Were I live there is only Satellite Internet"Crappy and expenseive", WISP"IF a heavy bandwidth or poweruser you pay about $120US amonth on top of a $100 install", Dial-up 46.6Kbps w/ very high corruption, 3G "limited with connections". I am on 3G right now with Virgin Mobile 3G because the this is all I can afford because I can't afford Dial-up or Satellite internet because I am on limited income, when I was on Dial-up I was paying a total $80 permonth $70 for phone line and $10 for Dial-up ISP. I had no other choice but to move up here back in Oct 09 because my rent is Cheap, I would like to move to a town with Broadband but with me being on limited income I can't afford the Rent. In my area I moved up here in Oct 09 before I moved there was DSL I checked before like anyone does they check for broadband but then After I moved and got settled Verizon said sorry all we can offer you is Dial-up because the Central office is pack and now when people cancel there DSL they are not opening back up the Slots for some one else and leaving the area with Dial-up. I am in Phelan, CA and is a Rural Area and People want something better then Satellite internet or expensive WISP or Dial-up or 3G. You people in a city with Broadband need to experiance being in a Rural area before you pass that Rural areas get the short end of the stick. Keep in mind Rural Area people can't do services that they want to do like Youtube or maybe netflix, hulu, vudu. Also keep in mind there are people in Rural areas with Bluray players now and those bluray players need Firmware updates and can be 60MB+ try to do that over Dial-up. Also keep in mind since Big broadband Companies didn't want to go into Rural even to expand slowly it now Costs WAY MORE to get the Rural Areas equal to an area that has broadband the Cost is more and Coming around and Kicking the Big Broadband Companies in the butt.
oh ya forgot in the area were I live it is there is only Dial-up, Satellite internet, or 3G there is no DSL or Cable internet available.
I have seen over price before I was using Virgin Mobile for my Main ISP I was on Dial-up in a rural area that the modem only connected at 46.6Kbps and it was $70US for landline and $10 for Dial-up ISP. or there is always companys like WildBlue Satellite internet it is near $80 for 1.5Mbps down.and only 17GB a month or even Hughesnet that has a max Daily usage of max 500MB
keep in mind 4G would be great in areas that can ONLY get Dial-up because broadband is not available at all. Also 4G is cheaper then satellite internet to were for Satellite is about 1.5Mbps download 17GB cap and near $80 for wildblue and you can't do Video Game at all because it does not do realtime transfers at all.
4G from sprint would be great in the area were I live at home I can only get 56Kbps dial-up because i am in a area that is rural, and the only landline provider in my area is Verizon and it is still all copper lines. Verizon has basicly the monopoly of my whole town and they don't want to update my area to add more DSL slots. basicly any one just moving to the area can only get Dial-up no matter were they are in the city even if they move 300 feet from the switching station they can only get dial-up.
I ones I use Black Mesa Vault Tec NetZero_Dialup_WIFI:(
Big brother one it way to a school near you. I think we should do this to School officials and Government officials. The Students should have a Ubuntu live CD so that they can go off the record.
Were I live I can only get Dial-up 46.6Kbps connection because I am in a rural area in California. I am at a buddy's house right now with a Cable net connection I am downloading as much podcasts and video media as I can before I have to go back to Dial-up. as a personal note I have been waiting for a Verizon DSL slot to open up were I live for about 4 months now since I moved. I am within range for DSL.
Kids can take out there PSPs and Gameboys outside in the sun or the parents could setup a Wii Game station outside in the back yard if they have a back yard, Wii Console in a enclosure and a Old CRT TV with the top covered.
I can across this today and I decided to but in my 2 cents. Recently I moved from a town that had DSL and Cabel internet. To a rural area I did check for DSL and it was available but by the time I got moved and a mailing address all the slots got filled for DSL at the switching station because the telecom does not want to update the switching station to get more slots and I have Dial-up right now I have been waiting for DSL for over 3 months. When I moved and got stuck on Dial-up I had to give up PC Gaming, Playstation 3 Gaming, Ventrilo, Podcast, Internet TV and Radio like TWiT Live, youtube, manageing a Podcast Site, and a PC Backup Service. So I hate being on Dial-up and satellite I would hit the threshold of 17GBs a month from one company for traffic and you can't game.