Cable / DSL Alternatives, broadband.

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m (hopefully) going to be moving in a couple months, but the new place I’m gonna move into apparently isn’t in the coverage area of any of the local cable/DSL companies. I checked a couple of satellite companies but they all have terrible uplinks unless you pay them like $500 a month and get a huge honkin government satellite, that isn’t really an option.

I’m (my family) is really lookin for something that is reasonable for playing games, good latency, with a good downlink/uplink speed, but is it possible without DSL / Cable coverage to get anything like this thats under an absurd $200/month?

Also, I was wondering how you could find out the expense of actually putting in some sort of line, I don’t know much about this but the property is pretty close to Skywalker Ranch, and I know they had huge fiberoptic links put in. I assume it’s possible but we really just need a residential sort of line, so nothing crazy. Anyone know much about this? I’m really a newbie to it all so any explanations would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

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If you can’t do cable/dsl and don’t want to fork over the dough for satellite, the only other option left I can think of would be ISDN. It’s only about twice as fast as normal dialup and somewhat more expensive. And you want to look very carefully at your local call package. ISDN tends to really slam your local service between the disconnect/reconnects. But it does (marginally) qualify as broadband.

Personally, if I had a choice between ISDN and dialup, I’d stick with the dialup, particularly if you can get a decent 56k connection where you’re at. The speed boost isn’t worth the jump in cost and possible annoyances.

Of course, you could always run a cable across George’s property line and steal his bandwidth. :smiley:

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You might want to look into fixed wireless. After years of slamming my head into the wall waiting for DSL and cable to come our way, I finally found an ad in the paper for DTN Speednet Wireless. We get a consistent 500k upstream/250k downstream for about $50 a month, and I couldn’t be happier.