I have got to share this with someone... Montana is very rural and I live about 40 miles from the nearest small city, 12 from the nearest place with any people, however the local phone company, Centurytel (the cover alot of places all over the country) has a switch about 2 miles up the road so I get excellent DSL service. The hardest part was getting the modem. No one seemed to know when UPS was going to deliver it. I ended up driving into town to get a loaner modem from them. But otherwise the setup has been very easy. So, I think some places have their shit together and others do not. There is another small phone company in the valley south of here and you cannot get any residental broadband, except perhaps a T-1 or 56k, and that will not change for many years. The pain of local exchange monopolies...
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I have got to share this with someone... Montana is very rural and I live about 40 miles from the nearest small city, 12 from the nearest place with any people, however the local phone company, Centurytel (the cover alot of places all over the country) has a switch about 2 miles up the road so I get excellent DSL service. The hardest part was getting the modem. No one seemed to know when UPS was going to deliver it. I ended up driving into town to get a loaner modem from them. But otherwise the setup has been very easy. So, I think some places have their shit together and others do not. There is another small phone company in the valley south of here and you cannot get any residental broadband, except perhaps a T-1 or 56k, and that will not change for many years. The pain of local exchange monopolies...