radougherty
join:1999-07-23
Austin, TX
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Yep, backwoods
I have a work at home person about 35 miles SW of Little Rock. I tried to find anything other then POTS dial up for here and get nothing. I tried to get a 56Kbps DS-0 line installed for our frame network and SBC came back and said it would cost $100,000 for a build out at the CO for her since the CO couldn't even support a DS-0. Yep, backwoods. |
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SilenceGold
Premium
join:2003-07-31
Benton, AR
1 edit | Charter in Saline county doesn't even provide cable internet because they are not even set up to. Too many promises "Coming soon" from them.
SBC won't sell aDSL to me but Earthlink will? Speeds are equal to what SBC would have sold to me but more expensive than what SBC packages are.
That tells you about the region that is south west from Little Rock.
The best broadband coverage of ever other than in the captial city of Arkansas is Russellville. I used to live there, the choices were awesome. It covered almost the entire Pope County.
I'm stuck in Benton so bring on the BPL. |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
Premium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | isnt Benton where Walmart world HQ is? one would think the town of walmart would have tons of BB options.
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SilenceGold
Premium
join:2003-07-31
Benton, AR | No. That is Bentonville which is at the very northwestern corner of Arkansas. Tyson is another large company in Arkansas but is located nearby in Springdale. |
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BigCreek
God Is Good.
Premium
join:2002-06-25
Heber Springs, AR
| reply to Kearnstd
That would be Bentonville.
But Benton is a sizeable town next to a sizeable city. There should have been lots of alternatives there.
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dg2
Premium
join:2004-01-22
Lowell, AR
·Cox HSI
| reply to Kearnstd
Wal-Mart's office is in Bentonville. It's about 150 miles from Benton. Bentonville has pretty good coverage in town (Cox, ATT), but like most local towns suffers once you get out of range of the CO.
Wal-Mart has their own stuff, and doesn't use much of the local infrastructure. |
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russvegas428
@cox.net
| reply to SilenceGold
Coverage might be ok in Russellville, but Cox cant seem to ever keep the speeds stable here. When I go back to my parents house in Bryant, which is in Saline County, I'm always jealous of there constant 6mb connection. they are about to switch to SBC/At&t now, becuase of there new 12.99 offer and of the fact that the local CO is about a tenth of a mile from there house. |
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jaywv30
join:2003-04-02 | reply to radougherty
Can you guys get Wildblue in AR? I live in WV and can't get anything but satellite...but I love my Wildblue as much as my 3.0 DSL at work. |
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SilenceGold
Premium
join:2003-07-31
Benton, AR
| reply to russvegas428
My point is..
You can choose Cox cable, various of DSL providers/options, and wireless providers.
During that time and in the Pope county, I used Cox cable for a while until I went with TranEdge for sDSL. I was well beyond the city limits. I also sampled Wireless internet for a bit too. Their primary dsl provider is Centurytel. |
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Necronomikro
join:2005-09-01 | reply to BigCreek
I live in benton. We have... SBC (AT&T), SBC and, uhh, SBC for broadband. Ticks me off. $70/month total bill, just basic phone and DSL. 1.5MBit down, 384kbit up. |
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BigCreek
God Is Good.
Premium
join:2002-06-25
Heber Springs, AR
| reply to jaywv30
said by jaywv30  :Can you guys get Wildblue in AR? I live in WV and can't get anything but satellite...but I love my Wildblue as much as my 3.0 DSL at work. Most forms of satellite are available most everywhere. I had DirecWay for 3 miserable years. Glad to hear you're happy with WildBlue, but (no offense intended) frankly I gotta laugh at any implication that it's as good as a 3M DSL. No way.
Satellite Internet is not broadband. Not even close. Ping times of 1000ms will never qualify to be called broadband. And they are not even in the same league for reliability or price.
Satellite? Just say no.
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