Rural High Speed Internet
Living in the country has many advantages. The clean air and great views as well as good hard working neighbors are some of the best reason for living in rural areas.
However rural areas also suffer many disadvantages. One disadvantage that just keeps becoming more important every year is suffering through dial-up for internet access. Sure several years ago it most likely did not affect you that much. But now many companies and even the government now urge you to use the internet to fill out forms and the like.
Besides all this there is the fun aspect to the internet that dial-up users just can’t take advantage of. Local news, weather, games, e-mail, chat, video, sound. The list just goes on and on. Personally I travel every few months on business and the internet helps me get the best deal on flights, hotels, and even coupons to restaurants I plan to visit. Not to mention looking up Farming futures.
If you live in a rural area and you can not get cable internet or DSL then all is not lost. Many rural areas now offer something called line of site. This is basically you using a dish to pickup wireless internet from a tower that the dish can see. While this is a great way to go for many people it is still hard to find a provider that offers such services because of the amount of terrain these towers need to cover.
Your other option is to go with a rural high speed internet provider I am talking about satellite internet service. Now you most likely looked into this a few years back. Just 2 years ago the price for access was well over 100 bucks. That has all changed in just the past year. Now you can have access to speeds that are 50 times faster then dial-up for a starting price of under 40 bucks a month. Yes there are still plenty of places that charge up to 300 dollars for the fastest speeds out there but for regular home users there is just no need to pay that higher price for slightly faster service.
The down side to satellite internet is you will need to have a dish on your property some were and during very bad weather you may loose access to the internet for a short time. If you don’t mind the downsides then this is something you should look into.
By: Jacob Erdei
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