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http://www.wildblue.com/ This is the DSL we have. 150 GB per month and have been very happy with it.

I have DishNet. It works about as good as I need it to. I'm think it's costing me around $60 a month. Only problem is I keep getting these emails telling me how much of my monthly allowance I've used, when I know I haven't been on it very much. I called Dish and they claim they have no idea what's going on. It could be better, but my options are limited where I live. I can't even get DSL.

When telephone service was rolled out Congress imposed the proper regulated monopoly utility paradigm on the phone companies. They were required to provide the same access at the same price everywhere in their protected market. So phones spread to farm homes as quickly as they spread to city phones.

If they had done the same thing with internet access, rural areas would have had reliable high speed internet long ago. And, just like the phone, it would have brought economic benefits along with it.

Get a couple cans and some string if you move there.

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I like it. For me shooting takes a bit of a drive away from the house.

shaman,

I live in central Pendleton County, 3 miles SW of Falmouth. Might want to make a couple calls:

First to CinBell to see when they will have FiOptic in your area. I just got hooked up in December. 95MB down, 18MB up. CinBell's contractors are running trucks and cable spools all over the county. They did eastern Pendleton before they did my stretch. So, may already be close to your AO.

If Cin Bell is not scheduled to do your area soon, call BlueOne.Net in Lexington. 859-219-1654. That is the service I just gave up. They do point to point ISP off of water towers, etc. 2-3MB down, 0.3-0.5MB up on their old gear. Their new gear is supposed to be 2x to 3 x faster. I passed on the upgrade when the FiOptics crews showed up.

Cannot speak to current condition. However, BlueOne was significantly faster than Hughes Net at the time that I changed over to BlueOne several years ago.

Orion2000:

Ah! Howdy neighbor! That's just the kind of info I was looking for. I've got a while yet. There's no telling when I'll make the move, so maybe there will be fiber out there by then.

I also hope CinBell does a better job than they did connecting to my place at home. THey had 10 feet of grass and a neighbor's driveway to navigate before they got onto my property then my driveway and 40 yard of lawn to get into the house. It took them 2 months extra and they managed to cut Time Warner's fiber on the way in. At that rate, they'll finish SW Bracken County sometime before the second coming! I can't fault the service since the install.

Personal note:
I'm socked in until March 1 or so right now, so I won't be able to make El Paso until at least then. However, I have not forgotten. I started a new job 12/15 and it's been maximum effort ever since. The good news is that I'm driving 18 minutes to work instead of all the way to Walton KY every day. I get a small window where I can hunt turkeys in April and then they're doing an ERP migration to Oracle in May. Ah! It's fun to be busy again.

Lot of rain here, bad service when it rains

A few years ago we were considering a move to a small town in western OR. The only high speed service in the area at the time was Hughsnet. I looked at a lot of reviews they were almost universally NOT recommended.

Small world. Wrapping up my 13th or 14th Oracle EBS implementation as Project Manager. Current contract ends in Feb. Looking for a new gig. Shoot me a PM if they might be looking for assistance on the Project Management front...