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My parents live in western NC and have the same problem. They're in a very rural area. Time Warner provides service down their road but stops about a half mil
by robflynn 15y ago
My parents live in western NC and have the same problem.
They're in a very rural area. Time Warner provides service down their road but stops about a half mile or mile from their home. Why? Because my parents are in a different county and their county has some sort of exclusivity thing with Northland Cable.
Northland Cable has no desire to run service to my parents' street as I believe my parents are the only ones on their street that would use it.
BellSouth/AT&T Does not provide DSL access to their area, either.
Their only option is a private company providing wireless internet. They pay about $50/mo for 1mbit down/1mbit up. Quite often with 20-30% packet loss. More if it's raining.