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Interesting article. > Some small-town residents say it’s nearly impossible to do simple tasks like check email and stream videos. Eric Pelka, a post office em
by update 9y ago
Interesting article.
> Some small-town residents say it’s nearly impossible to do simple tasks like check email and stream videos. Eric Pelka, a post office employee in Julian, Pa., told Fox News at times they had to turn seven to eight people away a day because of poor Internet connection.
I'd also wager that it stops some people from moving to the area. I recently was looking to move to a rural area and a make or break factor was internet. I passed on so many beautiful locations because there was no internet available.
- Clubber 9y agoAbsolutely. I'd love to live in a less populated area. The requirements would be: Gas and grocery within 30 minutes (should be easy). Doctor within 30 minutes. Usable internet (stream SD videos).
- maxerickson 9y agoThere's 5000 emergency rooms and 3500 Walmarts in the US. So the first two don't narrow things down a lot.
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- tortasaur 9y agoMost people having those requirements are the major reason these areas are sparsely populated.
- ams6110 9y ago"Check email" is comfortably accomplished with dial up connection speeds. Streaming video not so much, but there's always satellite service for that kind of thing. Not to say that rural areas don't have a problem with good internet access, but they don't have good access to a lot of other services either. That's why they are called "rural"
- mandelbrotwurst 9y agoEh, if you're just pulling text-based e-mails through a desktop client, maybe, but these days e-mails can be pretty fat and if you want to use a browser based mail client like say, gmail.com, you're going to have to switch to the "simple HTML" interface. FYI if you want to get a feel for what browsing at different connection speeds is like there's a setting on the Network tab in the Chrome dev tools that will allow you to do that.