dragonsjaw — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:54:27 +0000

In the hills between 95560 and 95589 zip codes.
We have land line verizon phone and they are no help in this.
We use a pay as you go cell phone and it is digital, but not connected to any of the cell carriers you always hear about like Verizon, sprint etc.
The nearest town (Garberville) has cable tv and offers a high speed broad band on their set up..but they are miles away and will never come out here.
Most folks have DirectTV or DishTV for their tv needs.
It would be way too much money to try and get enough people to even think about running a T1 line.
So I guess sometime this spring, I will seriously look at the satellite internet again.
I just hate doing something that I know will have serious draw backs,
but hey that's part of living in the wilderness..
a lot of the techy fun stuff is just a bit out of reach.
Thanks.

Greg K — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:11:22 +0000

Definatley check to see if you are getting a digital signal on your cell phone or if it is analog. Where in california are you at?

Gangsta penguin — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:42:19 +0000

There is a downside to sat they can monenter your file size stuff meaning that your only have a certian amount of spacee then it drops you down to dial up speed and it is expensive

compwolf — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:51:15 +0000

tallon wrote: What is FAP? I have not heard of it.

FAP = Fair Access Policy ... This is where the maximum amount of KB downloaded is reached and they Throttle your connection speed. Sometimes the throttle speed will be as low as 50Kbps ... This is supposedly done so that no one person can hoard the bandwidth with a Peer to Peer network program or some other high bandwidth usage program.

compwolf — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:42:48 +0000

I do not have any experience with the sattelite internet except for third hand info ... Unfortuneately most people who have it hate it ... but if it is all you have then your kinda stuck ...

As to the Cellular internet .... That is only available in a Digital area coverage. If you are so far off the grid that your phone is analog ... then that is not going to help either ...

In the end usually cable TV companies are the first to offer Broadband in an area before others do. The reason is that they can pipe in high speed and pick up the TV people at the same time, so this becomes the most cost effective due to the fact there is very little requirements for the company to offer it.

If it is such a critical thing to have the high speed internet, and cost isn't too much of a factor ... you can talk to the business people (not the Residential) customer service with the local phone provider and see what options are available for a T-Line. This is usually pretty pricey but if you are not alone there then you can start up your own ISP and offer other options then to your neighbors.

tallon — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:56:22 +0000

What is FAP? I have not heard of it.

EGS — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:06:20 +0000

You can get ISDN. It's fast...Neandertech is a pretty cheap provider.

dragonsjaw — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:49:34 +0000

ahhh...I don't think you quite got it VG_King... we have no high speed on these phone lines and Verizon says never. We can get a cell phone to work here at the house, I hadn't thought about may be using that way, but some how I don't think that offer will be in this area either.
So far as I know, Satellite will be the only way to get a faster download load speed, I am not sure what the upload will be.
I was hoping there were other off the grid--- way out in the hills folks hanging around here to get some first hand info.
Thanks..

~dragonsjaw

EGS — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:23:41 +0000

Get DSL. Your phone provider probably offers the service; it's cheap and fast. I pay $29.99 per month and my DSL is as fast as cable.

Depends on your area, but no matter what DSL is a lot faster than dial up.

dragonsjaw — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:44:58 +0000

For internet I don't have any other option besides dial up or satellite.
The dial up is painful. The satellite will also have it's share of problems, storming days and nights, slow upload (which i do more than down load at present time).
The FAP does have me a bit concerned as I often spend hours at a time online, working.
Thanks for the info.

~dragonsjaw