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Need advice for alternative internet connection
I am moving to Tennessee next month to an area where dsl and cable are not available. I want to know if there is another way I can get a service without going back to dial up.

 

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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
As far as I know satillite is the only way to go.

 

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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
Several cellular providers offer a wireless internet service. Verizon and Sprint for sure and I think Cingular as well. We're thinking of switching to that since we've been using Starband satellite for a while and it sucks.
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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
I'll check and see if I can find some more info on the celluylar wireless service. I don't wanna go with satalite. I hear satalite is good for browsing only and sucks for everything else.

 

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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
Sattelite sucks, badly.  No online gaming due only to the fact it takes nearly a second for the data to relay from the sattelite to you and vice versa,  and some download sites ping out.  It's not worth the trouble if that's not your only choice.

I always thought Tennesse's infrastructure was much better than Kentucky's.  I guess I stand corrected.
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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
From what I hear the cellular stuff lags quite a bit as well, but at least a rainstorm won't stop the signal as opposed to satellite... :doubt:
Still, I've managed to play NWN and Guild Wars with the lag and it's annoying but manageable.
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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
I guess I'm going to have to go back to dial up. I don't want to, but it seems like its my only option unless I go with satalite which is just as crappy but more expensive. Goodbye to online gaming and downloading, hello to slow speeds and replacing modems after 3 months because they always fry.

 

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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
No way! Try the cellular stuff.
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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
I don't think there is a cellular service in the area I'm moving to. I can't find any info saying it is available.

 

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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
I did some more looking and a few sites (including the service's own site) say Comcast's service is available in that area. But I don't understand how it is possible if the area does not get cable.

 

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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
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Not my opinion but i thought it my be relevant to the current situation :D
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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
I wouldn't say it sucks. I'm getting seven acres of land for only $54,000.

 

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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
Ok that works out to about 7K per acre,

http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/land-for-sale.asp?id=1803

Thats a bit cheaper over here per acre i spose, but whats the exchange rate right now :D
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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
The US has a rather a surplus of land, it's scarcely surprising that it'd be cheap :)

 

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I agree Aldo, i was surprised to find such a deal in Bucks at such short notice....
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-War Machine
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Re: Need advice for alternative internet connection
What kind of land we talking here?  Hilly?  Farmland?  What?
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Size: 22.25 acres approx.
Guide Price: £320,000
Description: Approximately 22.25 acres of pasture land in four enclosures, yard and 4000 sq.ft building with eight internal 20ft x 20ft boxes. Planning consent for a second 4000 sq.ft building. The land is level and well fenced. Long road frontage. Underdrained (1969). Electricity connected. Water troughs in the paddocks. There are two road entrances. External flood lighting. Internal strip lighting and power sockets. High tensile electric wiring around the land. Brick paviour flooring to the barn. Guide price £320,000 freehold or To let at £800 per calendar month



And i just realised i could rent that palce............. "tempting"
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-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
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