Promised Land Homestead

High Speed Internet?

After two years of dial-up internet, I was getting pretty tired of it.  We had DSL when we lived in Louisiana and I got spoiled.  We don't have DSL access out here in the country (yet) so we were relegated to dial-up unless we wante to spend $60 a month on satellite internet.  Nope, doesn't appeal to my frugal side.

So yesterday we took the plunge and purchased wireless internet.  The company had to install an antenna on the roof that intercepts a signal from broadcast towers.  It's still slow compared to what we had, but not waiting 30 seconds for each webpage to load is a Godsend. 

So now we're cruisin' at 256K instead of 56K.  My coworkers were laughing at me.  256K is pretty slow compared with their 8Mb per second cable internet, but you take what you can get when you live out here.  The best thing is that we really are not paying anymore than we did for dialup.  In fact, we're actually saving $5 per month.  Our dial-up cost $15 per month and the wireless costs $30.  However, now we can get Vonage phone service to use through our internet connection.  That saves us $20 per month on our phone bill.  So we get faster internet and unlimited long distance for $5 cheaper a month. 

Can't beat that.

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11:31 AM, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 .. Posted by morningsunshine

cool. We have wireless too. it is nice, and our tower is only up the hill from us, so that helps a lot with our connection. :)

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12:43 PM, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 .. Posted by OklahomaJamie

I tried to get the kind you have a year or so ago. They installed it and all and there is a slight hill between my house and the place where the tower is located and the signal wouldn't work!! So I had to get the expensive satellite internet. The house next door has our local phone company's high speed dsl, but they say I'm too far away to get it (I'm only 2/10 mile past my neighbor!!)

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1:00 PM, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 .. Posted by haflinger

Well I'm so glad for you cause we are on dial up and its so slow..I have called everywhere and nobody has a plan for our area..We have dishnetwork and still no high tech stuff in our area... We just got power to our area in the later 80's so you can see some places here in Maine move slow..lol..
Blessings Brenda/haflinger