View Full Version : Any of you still without broadband?
Collectordragon
10-11-2008, 01:59 AM
I still don't have broadband internet. :( Neither dsl or cable is available in my area. It seems like I'm the only young person in the entire country without access to it. I do have satellite internet but I don't consider it true broadband because it's so unreliable and has a very high latency. Even when it's behaving it still is usually slower than most cable and dsl services.
Collectordragon
10-12-2008, 12:09 AM
I guess I'm the only one without real broadband? :-?
You're in California and without broadband? I CLAIM SHENANIGANS ON YOU
Where I live, ATT and Yahoo have been advertising their shit for 4yrs or longer and its still not available in my area.
There are other options but theyre too expensive and Id just assume hit a wireless spot from time to time for the high speed needs.
Collectordragon
10-12-2008, 12:23 AM
I live in CA but in a rural part of the state. Broadband providers don't care about rural people.
Collectordragon
10-12-2008, 12:27 AM
Where I live, ATT and Yahoo have been advertising their shit for 4yrs or longer and its still not available in my area.
There are other options but theyre too expensive and Id just assume hit a wireless spot from time to time for the high speed needs.
I've looked into options. I might be able to get a T1 line but it would be $300 to $400 or more a month. What do you do for internet access? I use satellite like I mentioned and dial-up when the satellite isn't working properly.
epobirs
10-12-2008, 05:02 AM
Satellite is still a massive improvement over dial-up. This site and much of the web has such a high load per page it would be truly painful to use over the best dial-up speed. So many of the Web technologies we now take for granted aren't so much a result of better software, since most of the necessary components were demonstrate far back in the 90s, but of broadband becoming sufficiently common that a site can forsake dial-up users.
Have you looked into terrestrial wireless? My sister has a spread in a pseudo-rural affluent community up in Washington State. Cable TV is non-existent there due to the distance betweeen homes making it prohibitively expensive to wire the area. (The phone companies get subsidies for wiring rural areas that cable MSOs don't enjoy.) I was able to find a company that does terrestrial wireless service in that region. She made a deal with them to place a repeater tower on her land, giving her the highest rate they offer (10 Mb down, IIRC) for a price comparable to cable service and in turn improving their coverage of the region.
The latency isn't too bad . Worse than cable/DSL but far better than satellite.
If you're seriously considering a T1 for that kind of money, you may want to also look into a far superior satellite product. www.tachyon.net is something we (www.locationconnect.com) used to use a lot for bringing broadband service into places that had none. That is pretty rare these days in the places looking to hire us, so we haven't set up the dish in a few years. Back then, we pioneered its use as a portable solution since the company had only thought in terms of semi-permanent installation at that point.
snakelda
10-12-2008, 10:43 AM
You can get those verizon internet things.I had it but it was 60 per month and only a 5GB limit.I got rid of it but it sucks because alot of times,it would discconnect for no reason.
darthbudge
10-12-2008, 10:46 AM
Up until a year ago my only option was Dial-Up. Now I have Broadband over Radio Signal and it is pretty awesome. It can be a bit slow at peak times, but later at night or early in the morning I get great speeds.
I've looked into options. I might be able to get a T1 line but it would be $300 to $400 or more a month. What do you do for internet access? I use satellite like I mentioned and dial-up when the satellite isn't working properly.
Im stuck on peoplepc and theres a wireless spot about a mile from me that I go hit when I need to do some high speed intrawebbing.
Xevious
10-12-2008, 12:02 PM
You're in California and without broadband? I CLAIM SHENANIGANS ON YOU
California is not just LA and San Francisco you know...Its a pretty big state with lots of rural areas..
VioletArrows
10-12-2008, 12:14 PM
Does having Comcast count? I swear to god, all I can do is download text and tiny pictures like buttons; streaming, games, long forum threads, and even pictures are all out of the question. All it does is hiccup and crawl because I'm sharing one connection with the rest of my building. And they're trying to charge me $70 for this. I've been trying to fight them all week on it, but they just tell me it's not their problem and hang up on me.
tehweezner
10-12-2008, 03:43 PM
I guess I'm the only one without real broadband? :-?
i feel your pain. i had dial-up until about a month ago
and Violet i have comcast as well and it's blazing. 850kb/s constant if downloading from multiple sources, sometimes bursts of 3mb/s
packerfan10
10-12-2008, 03:48 PM
Well I have DSL but I think its stupid that Verizon said 2 years ago that FIOS was was going to be in my area 2 years later I cant. Its funny cause if I lived on the other side of my street I could but on my side nother. Verizon said it wouldnt hit my side of the block for another 2 years.
Verizon/Charter Cable area BUT with Charters stock going down to less then a doller a share not sure how much longer they are going to hold on before they get picked up by Time Warner.
cognitive77
10-12-2008, 09:16 PM
I'm stuck with WildBlue satellite which sucks. Cable is just up my road 1 mile but crosses an interstate.
dmaul1114
10-12-2008, 09:18 PM
No, I've had it for years. My parent's still have no broadband available. No cable internet or DSL, no cell reception for wireless. Only option is satellite and the neighbors have that and it sucks.
I really feel for you guys. I can relate, when I lived in the caribbean for several years I couldn't even get reliable dial-up. It was terrible.
VioletArrows
10-12-2008, 09:49 PM
and Violet i have comcast as well and it's blazing. 850kb/s constant if downloading from multiple sources, sometimes bursts of 3mb/s
I have yet to see speeds over 100Kb/sec. Half the time when I'm stubbornly trying to look at Hulu or picture oriented boards, I'll give up halfway through. I'm tempted to have it disconnected and tell them to go fuck themselves, but no one else in the area can provide service to me because of them.
VAD3R or Fro
10-12-2008, 10:29 PM
We still use DSL. I am getting 54 MBPS thru the wireless right now.
Poor2More
10-12-2008, 10:36 PM
I still don't have broadband internet. :( Neither dsl or cable is available in my area. It seems like I'm the only young person in the entire country without access to it. I do have satellite internet but I don't consider it true broadband because it's so unreliable and has a very high latency. Even when it's behaving it still is usually slower than most cable and dsl services.
Where you that guy from that dating geek show?
We still use DSL. I am getting 54 MBPS thru the wireless right now.
LIES. No standard US broadband goes that fast. Even with FiOS you only get about 20 mbps. 54 MBPS is the theoretical maximum that wifi goes when using G/A it is never that fast though.