said by evilghost :

I have no idea what the point of this thread is.

said by kringles :

@warman58x,

In order to get DSL in my quite rural area we collected a petition of people who would sign up if it was available to them. Got a list of about 25 names with phone numbers and submitted to Windstream (at that time Alltel). A few months later we had DSL. Couldn't hurt to give this a try. You as the initiator should be able to get a referral fee for each new customer that signs up!

Good Luck

PS instead of giving your friend(s) free wi-fi get them to promise to sign up for DSL. The more that sign up the better your chance of getting the service extended.

said by kringles :

Got a list of about 25 names with phone numbers and submitted to Windstream (at that time Alltel). A few months later we had DSL.

said by warman58x :

I wish i had dsl here in my area during this xmas or real soon.

said by Piggie :


Does Windstream cover there? I would guess you are on a Live Oak phone? or if you have a phone it's called a Live Oak number?

A lot just depends where you live. That area is fairly rural, used to live near Fort White.

One suggestion, if there are enough people in your general area that want DSL and you get a petition going your chance of them extending DSL out to your remote is pretty good. That is if you are within 3 miles about of your remote.

If you know your local WS person that rides around in the local WS truck or van, they can give you the scoop faster than calling the 800 number.

Another idea is if you can get the local numbers to Live Oak Office. Live Oak is the regional office for all of Florida. Robert Kelly used to be the head man for Florida and worked in Live Oak and think he still does. They probably don't know in that office the specifics of how close or not you are to a remote or getting DSL, but they should be able to put you in contact with the local supervisor who has to know his wiring maps very well. They used to publish the number to that office in the old Alltel phone books but WS took the number out of the front. But Live Oak itself isn't that big a town, someone should know someone to get you an answer there locally.