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AndyMarquisLIVE
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Verizon's the better of the companies unfortanently they're not widely avalible.
DSL availability is a function of physical constraints, i.e. how far away you are from the phone company's equipment. FOIS (fiber optics) does not have distance restrictions. But Verizon will start with the highest density areas and work their way out. They can probably make more money wiring 2 blocks in DC than doing all of St. Mary's County.
Cable is really the answer. Cable is a franchise, i.e. government sanctioned monopoly. If cable is not available in your area, then the best people to pressure are the County Commissioners. It is an election year and it is not too late to make it an election issue.
I believe the current company was just awarded a very long contract. There are probably terms in their contract that specify what they have to do to expand coverage. Either way, you can still put pressure on the politicians. Its almost hard to believe that in 2006 entire parts of the county do not have access to cable.
If you can't get DSL or cable, somdwireless offers HS wireless in a limited area. Other than that, there is satellite. We have links here:
http://somd.com/relocate/internet/index.php
Cable is really the answer. Cable is a franchise, i.e. government sanctioned monopoly. If cable is not available in your area, then the best people to pressure are the County Commissioners. It is an election year and it is not too late to make it an election issue.
I believe the current company was just awarded a very long contract. There are probably terms in their contract that specify what they have to do to expand coverage. Either way, you can still put pressure on the politicians. Its almost hard to believe that in 2006 entire parts of the county do not have access to cable.
If you can't get DSL or cable, somdwireless offers HS wireless in a limited area. Other than that, there is satellite. We have links here:
http://somd.com/relocate/internet/index.php
Penn
Dancing Up A Storm
If cable or DSL is still unavailable in your area, I suppose about the best you can do is get a dial-up service like Earthlink, which offers a 5X speed booster, which is said to up your normal speed that many times.
I had it before DSL came into our area, and it did help downloads a bit.
I had it before DSL came into our area, and it did help downloads a bit.
Nupe2
Well-Known Member
Thanks for the info and suggestions folks! Apparently our little community is one of the few that has not been wired for cable. We're on the other side of the Veteran's home and one of my neighbors is an installer for Metrocast....says it would be pretty simple to run cable from the Vets Home to our road. I'm going to contact the Commissioner and look into some of the other suggestions. I have Earthlink now...we'll see. Thanks again. 
Penn said:
I have Earthlink with the accelerator. I'm paying extra for the service but what it appears to do is use pages already stored in your temporary internet file folder to speed up the process. This means that it loads old copies of whatever page you are going to. I have my machine set to delete these files when I log off so the accelerator really doesn't work for me.
I've tried to find other companies such as Verizon and ATT for DSL service but I'm told that DSL service is not available in my area. Short of going with Satelite Internet with Hughsnet, I guess I'm stuck with dial-up until I move somewhere else.
vanbells said:
Not sure. All I know is that when I had the accelerator active I was always getting old data on the web pages it brought up. I would always have to delete the files in the temporary internet files directory before the current pages would be displayed.
