nightdesigns
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| It really has taken off there.
I have family that lives in Wintrhop and in the past few years they've received high speed internet. Actually, they had high speed internet before they had cell coverage.
Most of it is fueled there because a lot of the execs from Microsoft and the Seattle Times have weekend homes there. Since the addition of bandwith, several companies have moved in and a few call centers are in the works. It has actually helped the economy quite a bit in what was a tourist town.
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dks7
join:2004-05-31 | I live in Okanogan county and know its wireless privider by heart ncidata.com which in my opinion is way over priced and always has been. Now we have cable and dsl options yet people still continue to use the wireless. |
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firephoto
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| said by dks7  :I live in Okanogan county and know its wireless privider by heart ncidata.com which in my opinion is way over priced and always has been. Now we have cable and dsl options yet people still continue to use the wireless. I had the same wireless from ncidata.com (now swift-stream.com), the uptime was terrible and the customer support was pretty incompetent or else they were hoping the customer was incompetent.
Verizon has dsl in the south county area (distance permitting), and I do believe most all the telco providers have dsl in the other areas.
The other wireless service offered via the Okanogan PUD's retailers is pretty slow but is better than dial-up obviously, and it covers areas in Pateros, Brewster, Wakefield, Okanogan, Omak, Tonasket, and Oroville I believe.
To get an actual fiber hookup you need to be within 3000 feet of a node, and most of those are within or close to the cities. Perhaps with some more demand they would install more nodes but right now they are pushing their wireless instead which doesn't cover the need for a lot of people.
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rawgerz
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It would surprise me if the people that are served are spread out to 5-10 houses per mile of road, if this is a town of 5K people with most houses 25ft apart then what's so 'rural' about it?
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