G+_Jose C Martinez Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 With all this talk about everything being in the cloud I would like to know what's being done to help us that are on satellite internet. I have a data cap of only 10gigs a month. There's nothing coming to my neck of the woods in the form of cable or DSL even though I only live minutes from big cities and towns that have such internet available to them. Why are major ISP's dragging their feet in hooking us rural tech heads up? Right now from my seat I think such things as having to be connected to the net to play a game or other things that had no such requirements in the past is awful. To have to choose a place depending on whether you have cable or DSL feels like I'm being held hostage on where I can live. I don't live in a remote back country where there is no electricity. I live just outside of town. I would like to get some input from the twit heads and the community on what can be done so us rural residents don't get left behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ricky Cash Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I feel your pain. I live less than a mile from the box that can provide our little community with DSL. Centurylink will not spend the money to equip it with the digital equipment necessary because there are not enough of us to make it financially feasable for the 2 largest telephone company in the US. There is DSL 3 miles to the north and south of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Uncle Joe (Uncle Joe Hi Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 It's tough. As an aside, I think this is why the "Cloud" is over-hyped. Look at the Pixel. Do you really want to spend $1200 to access the Cloud? All of your stuff up there and not on your machine? And a cloud you can't get to? We live in a partly-cloudy world. That said, the new Hughesnet is faster. It's not for power users but it's decent speed. The real tragedy is that rural connectivity so expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Belisario Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 This is why government is needed. Businesses will never do anything unless it is profitable, and sometimes only then if it is profitable in the short run. Without the Rural Electrification Administration being set up in 1935, it would have taken much longer to get electricity out to rural communities. At the time, companies claimed it was too expensive to run wires out to them and they were too poor to afford the electricity anyway. (Sound familiar?) By that time, electricity was something key to make the country grow, and funding it was a big boost to everyone. Gradually we're realizing that with internet access also. Getting access out to rural communities, schools and libraries and faster speeds to everyone will continue to drive information to people who can use it to better things for everyone. Of course, we're fighting a lot of business wonks and know-nothings, but eventually we'll get there. We're pretty far behind a lot of countries regarding internet access and speed. I actually haven't kept up with this lately because my access is pretty good herein Oklahoma City. Surprisingly, it's been faster and more stable than what I had in Maryland, but some friends not too far from me are on the satellite service like you are. Now you've gotten my curiosity piqued again, so I'll probably do some hunting tonight. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Actually try to get a ipad with unlimited plan on eBay. iPhone gets throttle but not the ipad, it cost $$$ but it's worth it IMHO. The penalties are way more expensive for going over the cap... I have a DSL at home and it's slower than LTE and use my ipad unlimited also on the house also (30g a month) for streaming and downloads mainly 20u-20d. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Uncle Joe (Uncle Joe Hi Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Clinton gave corporations millions to wire up rural America and nothing came of it. One thing the government could do is allow local municipalities to provide connectivity themselves. I would do this under a breach of that earlier agreement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bill Russell Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Too much of an investment with too little profit(if any). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dale Moore Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 The cloud is the future, like it or not. You're gonna need decent Internet to make it work. You're not being held hostage, you're being given a choice. Live outside of town, and get crappy Internet, or live in town and become an urbanite. People who live in the city can't have city life AND country life, you make compromises. When deciding where to live, great access to the Internet will become a fundamental need, and municipalities will come on board once they start to feel the sting of either people leave, or new people not coming ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Shannon Warren Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 its not about compromise. when you live just 2 miles outside of town there should be better options. I shouldn't have to choose. i wouldn't disagree if i lived in a remote area where my driveway is a two track and there is nothing around for miles, but i don't. i live just minutes away from cities and towns. what the problem here is there is too much of a monopoly when it comes to cable and phone lines which prevent competition. To say that if i choose to live in an area that isn't urban, I can't have hi speed internet is bull. You are wrong Dale i should not have to sacrifice where i live( given reasonable distance from cities and towns) just to have internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Uncle Joe (Uncle Joe Hi Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 shannon knows he needs connectivity. He doesn't need it because we're all going to move our systems to the cloud. That's media hype. We've always had the cloud since the first document was collaborated online. The issue is getting local communities flexibility and that will mean Congress stepping in and either forcing the big providers to hold true on their commitments or removing obstacles for smaller towns to provide connectivity themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dale Moore Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 I don't disagree one bit with your point about municipalities and the crappy sad state of our broadband infrastructure is in. My point is simply that more and more, people are going to have to pick places that have infrastructure to move to. I get that you want to live outside of town and have connectivity... But you don't.... And you made that trade off. Doesn't change the fact that you're going to need connectivity more and more if you want to be jacked in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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