internet question

We’re in the process of moving from beautiful downtown Baldwin Wisconsin to lovely rural New Richmond. In town we had a sufficient cable/internet service. There is no cable service in our future area. What is the best option for internet: hard line phone, cell phone, satilite tv, or something else i dont understand. I dont know what I would do w/o IDO. Any input helps(with the exception of suggesting that I move out of cheezeland and closer to some sort of cicilization) . thanks

I’m sure B K has got your fix, just make sure he brings the converter box to go along with the dish he mounts threw the roof — via basement

When I built my house this winter I had the same problem because it would have cost me $6000 to run a phone line out to my place. Any type of internet around here that uses satellite was a rip off and have had bad experiences with that. I ended up with getting the MIFI wireless internet card from verizon. But I do have very good service where I am at, so this might not work if you have bad service. The speed has been just a good as broadband was in town. I know some people use their Droid for this also.

Within the last couple three weeks I’ve been exposed to tethering a cell to a laptop (or desktop). If you have a Windows Mobil Cell or one of the newer smart phones it’s pretty much a snap. I hear the cards like mentioned above are pretty good too. (no experience here)

I’m sure others will chime in tomorrow.

Can’t you get Centurylink high-speed in that area?? That’s what I have and have never had issues with it.

I would check with your local telephone company and inquire if DSL is available and at what speeds. If they do check also if they have any bundle specials ie: phone, DSL, unlimited long distance, TV (may be satelite) Good Luck

Local carrier is Frontier, all done over the phone line, my dsl is 3mg. , i live north of new richmond.

I tether my laptop to my AT&T cell phone service. Anywhere in the country I get AT&T service I get internet.

Dutchboy wrote:

I tether my laptop to my AT&T cell phone service. Anywhere in the country I get AT&T service I get internet.

This works surprisingly well. I use my buddies verizon phone to create a hot spot and it allows me to work from his car all the way up to lake of the woods. Apart from the swamp road near Red Lake, I can get a good 4 hours of work in and then only have to take a half day of vacation :).

dbechman wrote:

I live mostly off the grid and use unlimitedville.com. Had relied on satellite for a couple of years until a friend told me about it.

If you sign up, use INRANGE at checkout to get $20 discount.

Went from 14Mbps download/0.20 upload to now at 56Mbps download/5 upload.

Good luck all— pop’em & drop’em!

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I think it might have been the first spammer I have seen use an avatar
How does someone report spam here? Most of the other forums I use have a report post or some sort of alert button

That’s a stock avatar like yours Jeremy.

The software has been working so good that I haven’t seen many get through.

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That is a stock avatar? I guess I should look at more settings. How do I find the list of site staff as I am used to vbulletin forums?