Reviews:
 ·Frontier Communi..
 ·US Cellular
| Good! I think... We live in rural NC and have to deal with this poor, weak Verizon Wireless EVDO signal that cuts in and out all of the time.
We have the choice of US Cellular, they have a stronger signal, but just have 1xRTT, not EVDO. 1xRTT via US Cellular is a truly miserable experience.
And we get the privilege of paying $60 per month for this marginal service!
Verizon also has the land lines around here, no DSL in the forecast. On top of that, dialup is awful, what with the load coils, hum, and noise on the lines. They just won't fix them either!
Then there's cable - wait, there is no cable, we use satellite for TV.
Then there's satellite - even without the poor customer service provided by Hughesnet and Wild Blue there is the high latency and low speeds...
We can have a bit of prosperity, but we need this like we needed rural electricity and phone lines. I say needed because we generate our own electricity and use (again, overpriced) cell phones. Reasonably fast Internet access with low latency and higher caps (than 5 GBytes) are doable and they are a necessity these days.
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join:2007-01-23
Winston Salem, NC Reviews:
·AT&T Southeast
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said by jameswade:We live in rural NC and have to deal with this poor, weak Verizon Wireless EVDO signal that cuts in and out all of the time. |
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Reviews:
·Frontier Communi..
·US Cellular
| This link points to an "EVDO" booster antenna thingie that wouldn't help us at all as it's low gain and cut for 1.9 Ghz.
We have a MUCH higher gain antenna than that. Our large Yagi actually has specifications as to gain and frequency (800 Mhz in this area)! It is mounted on the roof of our house and connected to a three watt amplifier.
After spending several hundred dollars for all of this along with the cell data card and a router that hooks directly to the cell data card we barely have Internet access.
Without the antenna and amplifier we have nothing.
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