[BC] Wideband in DC

[Steve]

For those of you "Down in the Boondocks" (Billy Joe Royal, 1965) give WildBlue a try (if it's available through your nearest ISP). It's not cheap but for those of us who will not have (until they send it down power lines) DSL or too far out to have wireless service it's a very good alternative. I pay $80 bucks a month for 1.5 down and 256 up.(It's their top tier and my remote announcing work MORE than covers the cost and I can write off a portion of the expense). It uses the KA band so it's much more forgiving when it comes to rain fade or big thunderheads which plague us from time to time down here in L.A....Lower Alabama.

Steve Newman
Steve Walker Productions
Opp, AL  36467

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark W Earle 
  To: broadcast at radiolists.net 
  Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:57 AM
  Subject: Re: [BC] Wideband in DC



  On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:13:44 -0700 "R J Carpenter" <rcarpen at erols.com>
  writes:
  > Mark W Earle commented:
  > >A home high speed connection is $20-40/month.
  > 
  > Not everywhere!
  > 
  > I live 15 miles from that big White House in DC.
  > 
  > Verizon's web site tells me that they can't supply me with ADSL.  It 
  > 

  Funny you have it but the "official" line is it is not available. I lived
  in Houston until 2005. Our street had been torn up numerous times to run
  fiber. It was only in 2003 we got the ability to buy DSL. Prior to that,
  it was $60/mo for the cable (not Time Warner, but a small outfit) data
  plus you HAD to buy TV. I used ISDN for a long time. 

  My point though is if it's not avail, Toile, Version, and Circular have
  reasonably priced data for $60/MO, or, you can get a satellite data
  service via Dish Network. There are solutions, for the person who INSISTS
  on downloading music or porn or whatever. I insist they figure it out and
  NOT do it on company PCs/ connections. 

  An interesting option here are wireless mesh hot spots being provided by
  the local city government. The primary use is to read meters (water and
  gas) automatically. The secondary use is "Internet everywhere". It's far
  from everywhere at this point, so they're letting it be used for free.
  The eventual plan is to charge about $10/month. 


  > would be close to $40 a month if they could.  They don't offer 
  > service in much of Potomac, an upscale region near me. Potomac is 
  > upscale, but the part I'm talking about has small lots.
  > 
  > Comcast can give me high speed computer access via their TV cable, 
  > but it's $60 per month - same price with or without Basic Cable TV 
  > service. About $45 if I already had TV cable - which I don't.
  > 
  > The weird thing is that I actually do have ADSL from Verizon and 
  > usualy get 1.4 megabits per second.  They get overloaded some 
  > evenings and then surfing is SLOW, slower than my old dialup service 
  > 
  > which I have kept.
  > 
  > bob c.
  > 
  > 
  > 
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  Mark 
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  wa2mct at juno.com    Corpus Christi, TX

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