i used to live in an isolated community called Timmins Ontario (in canada), look it up in google maps and you'll see how isolated it is, it's rather extreme, takes me about 6 hours to get to the nearest town above 50,000 people. about 8 years ago we got cable, and dsl put in. 5 years ago we got satelite for those who live "in the boonies" as in down 10 miles of dirt road to their little cottage that runs on a generator. they have high speed.
speeds then were about 100KBps constant on dsl, about 200KBps (average) on cable they recently capped them and upped the price to get the same service, claiming you were getting the lower end service before, but that's just corporate greed.
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i used to live in an isolated community called Timmins Ontario (in canada), look it up in google maps and you'll see how isolated it is, it's rather extreme, takes me about 6 hours to get to the nearest town above 50,000 people. about 8 years ago we got cable, and dsl put in. 5 years ago we got satelite for those who live "in the boonies" as in down 10 miles of dirt road to their little cottage that runs on a generator. they have high speed.
speeds then were about 100KBps constant on dsl, about 200KBps (average) on cable they recently capped them and upped the price to get the same service, claiming you were getting the lower end service before, but that's just corporate greed.
check out some of the ISPs if you want:
Vianet DSL
http://www.vianet.ca/residential_dsl.php
Vianet Cable
http://www.vianet.ca/cable_northern_on.php
Northern Telephone DSL
http://www.northerntel.net/internet.htm
there's a few others.. keep in mind, these are canadian prices and more "in the boonies" than you can get in the united states