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Comment from tina on 2008-11-05

2008-11-05T13:00:30Z

I live in an industrial place where only Att dsl is offered but the customer service is terrible. 3 weeks and still no service.

I have Att iPhone. can I Bluetooth it to get Internet on my PC?

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Comment from bWerner on 2008-05-25

2008-05-26T04:56:12Z

if you have decent service on your cell phone then ur not completely lost!!!! ask ur provider (Sprint, ATT/Cingular, Verizon, T-mobile, ect.)for unlimited internet for your phone. for sprint it is only 15 bucks a mounth. then go to fry's or some electronics shop and buy a USB bluetooth adapter for your computer. i bought a 25 dollar Belkin one and its amazing. install the drivers for it with your disk that came with it. ok, now go to the bluetooth center, and connect with your cell phone from your computer. your almost there!!!! now go to internet explorer. click tools, internet options, then connections. remove all the current connections. then click Add. click on dial up to private network. then next. then uncheck everything. yes i said UNcheck. then check the bluetooth device. then next. put in your 10 digit mobile phone # (the one that has the internet on it) WITHOUT THE 1 BEFORE THE AREA CODE. press next, finnish. now ok. now u should be back to the connection screen. click on Always dial my default. then click Apply and then ok. now close internet explorer, open it again. go to the blue tooth control center and poke around ur device till u find something that said Dial up or something about it. u should be able to figue it out from there.

NOTE: i am not responsible for any extra charges from your cell phone company. I tried this with a Sprint Moto V3M Razr with a Belkin bluetooth device and it works better than i thought it would. the actual download speed is about 400 kbps, which isnt bad. hell of a lot better then dial up. and cheaper 2 if u have AOL lol. i hope this helped all of yall and it worked for yall good luck to every1 and if yall have any questions about it email me at bwerner81@gmail.com

oh yeah, and i heard that ATT is going to extend DSL to every ATT home phone customer by the end of this year... but thats just what i heard

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Comment from Kerrie on 2008-05-16

2008-05-16T14:32:00Z

I am so frustrated! At&T said DSL was available in my area, I knew this because every single one of my neighbors have it. My closest neighbor is about 300 feet away. AT&T then said I was too far away from the "center" and that I couldn't have it. Yet my neighbor is NOT too far away. CAn I buy something wireless that will go the distance between our homes and then we can share the DSL? My only other options at this point are dialup (junk) and Satellite, which is $50.00 a month minimum.....and it won't be used enough to pay $50.00 a month. Any suggestions? The neighbor is way willing to do it if we can figure it out. I have a desktop and my daughter has a laptop
Thanks!
Kerrie

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Comment from Marilyn on 2008-03-07

2008-03-07T16:41:03Z

I live in rural Texas - tall trees, deep rivers. ClearWire is not available in my area. Are there any other cellular based ISP's that may offer service here. My cell phone has fair reception. There is an old antenna that reaches quite high that could possibly be utilized. zip 75839 - but too far out for DSL or broadband thru our land line phone service.

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Comment from Meme on 2007-11-03

2007-11-03T20:42:53Z

I found your comments on the options for high speed access in rual areas most informative.
I too am stuck out in the rural areas of Texas and really have no options, other than dial-up. Now with the price increase that A.T.&T. has decided they "have" to have, I am really looking into other means of service.
You seem to really know where the info is and how to go about it...Thanks for the lesson in on all the different ways to access the internet!

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Comment from Joe on 2007-06-24

2007-06-25T03:41:31Z

The best option I've found is WISP but the companies offering it stink at advertising and getting ranking on the web so when searching it can be a nightmare. Since I VPN to work from home it must offer the ability to do so without consistent downtime or, as mentioned, latency issues like Satellite...check out my blog entries on the subject as they help point you in the direction of finding a company that services your area. Here's one to get you started: http://citytocountryjourney.blogspot.com/2007/03/rural-high-speed-internet.html

BTW good job at covering most of the technologies so even a redneck can understand them :)

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Comment from wayne on 2007-01-29

2007-01-29T15:28:23Z

I live with in a mile of several wifi hotspots , but none close enough for me to connect. Is there an antenna that will bring in the singal? who ? how much? thanks

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Comment from Mindy on 2007-01-25

2007-01-25T22:37:42Z

I am one of the poor souls stuck with dial up. I live waaaayyy out in the country, with nothing but stinkin chickens and cows. No cable, no cell phone signal, notta. It sucks. Is it really 2007, cause I feel as if I have been abandoned in the 1980's. Somebody out there outta be coming up with a afforable solution to my problem, cause I know that I am not alone.

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Comment from jenn on 2007-01-19

2007-01-19T21:13:53Z

I have one way cable internet, downloads at @2100kbps upload is at @76kbps, I work from home with voip, obviously my voice breaks up, is there any way to speed up my uploads? This is the best option where I live which is CRAZY, since just 5 minutes down the road there is 2 way cable internet.

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Comment from Barry Mahler on 2006-11-28

2006-11-29T02:22:56Z

I am having an interesting experience trying to get AT&T highspeed here in Texas. I am already an AT&T customer and my rep told me today that it will be Dec. 15 before my account can be changed over for the service. I told him I would expect that in 1965 but this is 2006 and I thought you could swipe a crdit card and punch a few keys and get just about anything in a few hours. Makes you wonder who is running this show. If their service is not any better than their sign up speed then I probably don't want it anyway. Am I the only one who has experienced this?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-11-11

2006-11-11T16:53:23Z

You'll note that the article begins with "My neighborhood also has no cable.". Cable and DSL are the default types of broadband, and this article is about options when you don't have either.

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Comment from John on 2006-11-11

2006-11-11T12:41:49Z

I'm a beginner. I havn't seen anyone meantion the "cable" option. Is that because it's the obvious choice if you neighborhood has it?

John

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Comment from Bonnie Kadlec on 2006-08-05

2006-08-06T01:33:40Z

I need step by step process to hook up my dsl modem by Alaska Communications Systems DSL Thanks

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Comment from MaryPradeep on 2006-07-04

2006-07-05T05:54:09Z

How would be the Architecture of WiMAX Network? With wireless switches and wireless routers?

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Comment from MaryPradeep on 2006-07-04

2006-07-05T05:49:55Z

I am a beginner to WIMAX. How would be the Architecture of WiMAX Network? With wireless switches and wireless routers?

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Comment from Philip Humes on 2006-06-03

2006-06-03T15:33:24Z

I have a wireless internet dsl connection.
There is a yagi antenna on my roof pointed toward a site that is 10 miles away. There, it connects with a strong dsl line by wire. I rreally dont know what my speed is but it is good enough for me. All signals are encrypted to prevent use by someone tapping into the 900 mHz signal. It goes thru an encrypted firewall on the other end also. This works for me. Does not tie up my phone line or cable line. I lease the radio and antenna. My cost is 40 US$ a month.

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Comment from C. Baker on 2006-06-02

2006-06-03T06:09:39Z

I also live in an area that borders optical fiber service, but like Mr. Bulmash stated, I don't want to wait years for the telcos to decide if it is cost effective to hook up my small rural community. My production is kept at a 52k dial-up crawl. I am to far from a Central Office to use DSL (15 miles one way, 20 the other). How can one lobby the telcos or legislatures to have broadband service installed? Any answers out there.

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Comment from Rezwan on 2006-06-02

2006-06-03T01:28:50Z

Hi, I live in downtown, Toronto, Canada. With $25 a month I get basic high speed ('ultra-lite' is what they call it). I was wondering, all those options mentioned above, is it any cheaper than what I'm paying right now? Surely the speed seems a lot faster than what I'm getting.

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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2006-05-31

2006-05-31T23:46:40Z

It's interesting to note people from other countries talking about getting speeds that we in the U.S. can only often drool about. Sadly, one thing that's contributed to this, is the U.S.'s rush to adopt new telecommunications technologies during the 20th century.

Because the U.S. glommed onto these new technologies quickly, the oldest population centers also have some of the oldest infrastructure in the developed world. They got wired first, and upgrading them is a much more difficult project than areas with newer wiring.

So, while the telcos and cablecos bleat about their newest technologies, it's taking years to roll them out and it often seems the last ones to get phones and cable are the first ones to get the new broadband features because they have the newest and easiest-to-upgrade infrastructure.

In the 90s, I lived in West Toluca Lake, a densely populated San Fernando Valley suburb, a stone's throw from the freeway and two major surface streets. I could drive surface streets to Disney's studio lot, Warner Brothers studio lot, a CBS satellite studio lot, or NBC's Burbank headquarters in 10-15 minutes. It got cable TV service in the 1970s.

My father, 40 miles to the south, in a tiny little beach community that didn't get cable until the early-80s, with a population of 12k, had consumer broadband via cable modem over a year before DSL rolled out in my area, and 2+ years before cable modems became available.

Even now, Verizon's first FIOS installation in Washington is following that pattern.

http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=93018

By the end of 2006, they'll be able to offer FIOS to 60,000 homes and small businesses in Washington. According to the 2000 Census, there were 2.2 million households in Washington State. Based on population growth estimates, around 2% of the population of Washington will have FIOS available by the end of this year. And that population will be out in less densely populated suburbs, dozens of miles from Seattle.

Now, it's possible that my neck of the woods could be in the early 2007 plans because we're just on the border of the areas where they're laying fiber in 2006. Of course, they could also leave my area neglected for 3-5 years.

Luckily, I'm in a housing development that was built within the last 3 years and have 8 megabit cable through Comcast, so I'm not going to die while waiting for 25 megabit fiber from Verizon. But the pattern of infrastructure upgrades is interesting.

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Comment from Rob Vonderhaar on 2006-05-31

2006-05-31T12:50:25Z

I live in a semi-rural area of Northern Virginia (near D.C.), with no cable or DSL. We were limited to dialup until just a couple years ago, but now use a "wireless DSL" service. The ISP installed a repeater antenna on the top of a neighbor's house (the highest one in the subdivision). Each subscriber has a 1' square panel antenna, about 2" thick, which is mounted anywhere it has a line-of-sight shot at the repeater. Mine is tucked up under the eaves on the back of my house; others have them on a mounting pole on top of the house. The panel is a complete antenna and modem, with a simple CAT5 Ethernet cable that runs directly to your computer or router. There is a little power inserter in the line near the computer to power everything.

I get at least 1.5m down and 768k up on my plan, but faster speeds are possible for more $$. The service is rock-solid with one minor outage in over a year. I have a static IP address and no restrictions whatsoever, consistent speeds and very low latency. Cost is $59/month, so not cheap but at least in line with alternatives. So if you have a service like this available, it's a great alternative until something better (like Verizon FiOS) comes along.

FYI, www.dslreports.com is a good site to find local broadband suppliers that also includes lots of user ratings for each service.

Rob

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Comment from ewa on 2006-05-30

2006-05-30T22:07:53Z

How can am check what time and where was my last login in to
my ICQMAIL account?

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Comment from bendi on 2006-05-29

2006-05-30T06:53:06Z

In my experience, as a two-year satellite user, I had nothing but problems: day-to-day connection issues and recurring maintenance calls caused costs to skyrocket and made it absolutely not worthwhile in the end.

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Comment from Eli Coten on 2006-05-29

2006-05-29T21:27:18Z

I feel sorry for you... here in the UK we are a bit spoilt - Basic DSL is now at 2Mbps for most people, and many are even on 8Mbps. 24Mbps is just around the corner and the only obstruction is swapping out that ADSL equipment for ADSL2+.

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