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~10Kbps. Southern VT. 0.1 mile from a cable provider and 2 miles from 4G cell coverage. Live on the wrong road and you are out if luck. Solutions tried by peop
by amichal 14y ago
~10Kbps. Southern VT. 0.1 mile from a cable provider and 2 miles from 4G cell coverage. Live on the wrong road and you are out if luck.
Solutions tried by people I know (all since 2005)
* Satalite radio (helps with downlink but uplink is still via modem)
* Pay $700/mo for 1.5mb commercial T1 (1.5MBps). Took the ISP 3 days to do the line engineering from the CO.
* Long distance point to point wifi (@2.4GHz ~1mile and 800Mhz 10+ miles)
* HAM radio packet networking. Slow but fun
* Running 1/2 mile+ of Ethernet cable (with inline repeaters) through the woods and hoping no one messes with them
* Combinationa of the above.
Hisghspeed Internet access in rural/hilly areas is a major challange. We pay a few dollars every month on our phone bills as a special state tax to fund the ISPs to provide it. Have for years. still a problem.