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My connection has major problems at the moment that my isp isn't willing to admit to being caused by them, despite me having ruled out anything at our end several times.
It's normally around 2MB download and half a meg upload.
I do all my downloading at school (there aren't really any restrictions). The network is shared by the entire high school so the individual speed of one computer is much lower though still decently fast.
Just need to get that routed to your house now.At school... is absolutely insane.
That'd take about 10 days to load this page. Still, better than 1 bit/second.
Thanks for the suggestion, Priyaa. The only satellite service available to me is a company called Wild Blue. No others are willing to even consider installing at my location due to the fact that they have no installers anywhere near where I live. A couple of neighbors have the Wild Blue satellite service and have informed me that Wild Blue has very restrictive band width limitations that are easily exceeded. And if one does exceed the bandwidth limits, (as I very likely would on a regular basis), your service is suspended until you pay for another chunk of bandwidth. To make matters worse, the upload / download speeds are with this particular service are not noticeably faster than dial up. Nearest DSL is twenty miles away. I am able to get a good quality and reasonably fast mobile broadband connection by connecting cell phone to laptop with usb cable, but that is problematic when I need the phone for voice calls. This is simply something I deal with for the privilege of living out in the countryside away from "civilization". But I enjoy the peace, quite, and wildlife in my yard.
Thanks for the suggestion, Priyaa. The only satellite service available to me is a company called Wild Blue. No others are willing to even consider installing at my location due to the fact that they have no installers anywhere near where I live. A couple of neighbors have the Wild Blue satellite service and have informed me that Wild Blue has very restrictive band width limitations that are easily exceeded. And if one does exceed the bandwidth limits, (as I very likely would on a regular basis), your service is suspended until you pay for another chunk of bandwidth. To make matters worse, the upload / download speeds are with this particular service are not noticeably faster than dial up. Nearest DSL is twenty miles away. I am able to get a good quality and reasonably fast mobile broadband connection by connecting cell phone to laptop with usb cable, but that is problematic when I need the phone for voice calls. This is simply something I deal with for the privilege of living out in the countryside away from "civilization". But I enjoy the peace, quite, and wildlife in my yard.
Yes, Internet service in USA is provided by various private sector businesses. And since private business owners are concerned about profits, products and services offered by private business owners are largely determined by demand for a particular product or service in a particular market area. Due to the remote and very sparsely populated location I have chosen to live in at this time, there is virtually no demand for high quality Internet, therefore it is not profitable for providers to offer the service.
Well, when the house was built several years ago I had to pay the entire cost of extending power lines and telephone lines to the house due to the fact that I would be the only one benefiting from the new utility infrastructure. Therefore I suppose that paying for some type of high speed Internet cable would not be out of the question, though I imagine it would be extremely expensive to pay for approximately 20 miles of cable, which is what would be required. Thanks for the idea though.:smile:
