For about a year, my wife moved out of her beloved home office to an office in town to help out a friend and -we thought - expand some of our own business interets.
It hasn’t worked out that way, so she’s considering a move back to home.
There’s just one hitch. In town, there are a variety of high speed internet options, but when I check these DSL availability links for example, there’ s nothing.
I’ve checked locally too… it looks like a satellite is the closest we’re going to get.
For some reason, I shy away from the idea of a satellite system.
I’d like to know from you all…
1) are you having a hard time getting high speed internet for your home office?
2)if you’re having to use a satellite, are you happy with it?
alfa on April 7th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
tell me about it. I’m from a third world country and barely surviving because of my dialup connection.
Mark S on April 9th, 2006 at 6:25 am
Eureka…I’m glad to report there is a new solution. I purchased a place in the country about a year ago and options for Internet were dial-up or a Satellite TV company connection (don’t remember name) but the cost was going to be $799 for hardware and $75/mth with not alot of reliability during inclement weather. Mid-March 2006 a new product became available. It is Wildblue.Net. I’ve had Wildblue installed about a month and the service has been great. (Even through the storms we’ve endured here in the midwest over the past month.) Initial costs are $299 for dish and then around $55 for slowest connection speed. Which has been fine for me. For comparison, I’m coming from Charter Cable Internet and really haven’t seen any difference. P.S. I’ve even pushed the envelope to incorporate a Belkin router and created a 2 computer wireless LAN.
In my mind if you have electric…for a price…you now have internet.
Chuck on April 10th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Mark, I’ll check that out.
Steve on December 2nd, 2006 at 10:45 am
There is a very reliable and inexpensive alternative for high speed access for those who live in the country. I use Skyway satelite internet service. They are only $139 for the equipment and I am paying $29 a month for 256k speed. They do have other options for higher speed, but the $29 plan works great for me. Their site is www.satellite4internet.com