Internet and Phone

We originally had our phone service through AT&T and got a pretty good soaking from them because of the charges. Had to pay an extra $25/mo for long distance. Long distance is calling across the road. Seriously. I think it was $110/mo. Then came time for computers and internet. Dialup was all we could get here and we had to deal with it. 10yrs or so.

Checked that too. No service on either for the area.

I live west of Wichita and there is a company called Ideatek that is putting in cables "all over the countryside" so if is reaches to your part of the neighborhood could be a good option.  I think they got some kind of a govt. grant to bring internet out to the sticks.

I got the same problem here in so. va.  Our place is located in a creek bottom, can't even try to use cell phone! Thinking about trying that starlink when our over priced Direct tv, & Hughsnet finally run out. Also pay bout $80.00 a month for a hardline phone service, wouldn't want to miss those 10 tele-marketers everyday!!!

I also first had dial-up here as that was all that was available. Then Verizon offered a home hotspot. That was worlds ahead of the dial-up, so I was happy with it. Problem was I kept going up against the data cap and a higher cap was more $$$, so I raised the data cap 3 times. Then last fall got a letter that Verizon was going to 5G and my 3G hotspot would no longer be serviceable. OK I thought we had to replace our cell phones a couple years ago because ours were going to be obsolete, no big deal. The catch was that our 3G hotspot was going offline in November and 5G service only had a probable start date of sometime in January. Short story was that I'd have to buy a 4G hotspot (at over $200) for the interim period and then at some point the 4G hotspot would be obsolete and need to be replaced with a 5G hotspot and no clue as to the cost of the required 5G hotspot because it wasn't even available yet.

Edited by PaulB - 10 Apr 2023 at 2:59pm

No Starlink access here either, have made the calls to all the options where NADA other than the Landline service we currently have is even close to speed we get which as Snot Sliding off a marble slow.  Quoted that Magic "Up To" 10mbs Download, usually around 2-4 been as low as 1, cannot ever get better than .1 to 1.5mps Upload.  Now called Brightspeed, was Centurylink, Same Names and faces, different shop shingle.  Speed slowed upon change.  Used to repeat thru Wentzville MO and slow as owl poop decaying, now the regional 'Hub' is Dallas, Little Rock, some times Oklahoma somewhere and as swaps due to "loading" gets slower and slower, know that as the "Local Shopping" presented comes up as to whichever one is in control.  Will at times drop my viewed data or site, will stop typing on the sites, or will just go blank.  HOWEVER is far better than all the others tried in our nearly eight years here.  Ours is ANTIQUATED Copper four pair Pole hanging wire to a Fiber conversion station mile and half away off Catholic Church Road.  That little box has been seal failed for reportedly DECADES where machinery fouls nearly every rain or storm.  Slated for replacement, since 2001, still in some form of schedule time vacuum.  Current state of repairs is a taped on 50gal trash bag.

Edited by DMiller - 09 Apr 2023 at 2:29pm

Neither one of these things work. No signal on either.

It's not here I checked again yesterday.

internet can be very similar to cell phone service... are you saying you have no cell phone service in your area ?

Edited by steve(ill) - 16 Apr 2023 at 12:46pm

Been taking another look at Starlink.

Ukraine lost most of their internet when the war started a year ago.. Elon Musk setup a Starlink access for them to get the entire country back on line.