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Mxylplyx

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Dont be too hard on the OP. Before I bought my current house, I called the phone company and had them verify they provided DSL at the address. After closing on the house, I called and they told me they didn't service the address. After I essentially threatened to find them and kill them in their sleep, they gave me a different answer. Not having broadband internet is a deal killer on a house purchase.
 

Shawn

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Well it's kind of ridiculous to go through such a big life event as BUYING A HOUSE and not doing the proper research to make sure that house fits your needs.

If you consider convenient internet access to be important, then you better look into what your options are at the new place. This is like if someone considers convenient parking to be extremely important, and then decides to move into an apartment in Manhattan.

Or buying a car, and part of what you're looking for is a car that is large enough to fit your kid's tuba, and you end up buying one without even testing it out and then complain that the tuba doesn't fit.

I suppose we are all going to look like absolute jerks if it turns out OP moved because of a family emergency and he needs to live near his mom or something.
Who thinks to check if there is internet access? What year are we living in? We got cable internet here in 2003 and I thought it was about damn time.
 

Red Storm

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Who thinks to check if there is internet access? What year are we living in? We got cable internet here in 2003 and I thought it was about damn time.

If you're buying a house in a rural location it's common sense to check.
 

ImpulsE69

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It still amazes me the little bubble that some people live in that cannot grasp the concept that not everyone lives in the suburbs. I live in the middle of nowhere. I am just fortunate to have a small privately owned ISP that decided to push out broadband before any other place did, and even rolled out fiber while no one (Mediacom) else has yet.

If sattilite was my only option for internet, I'd just use my phone because it would be just as good ;p
 

Midwayman

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Dont be too hard on the OP. Before I bought my current house, I called the phone company and had them verify they provided DSL at the address. After closing on the house, I called and they told me they didn't service the address. After I essentially threatened to find them and kill them in their sleep, they gave me a different answer. Not having broadband internet is a deal killer on a house purchase.

Me too. I call service providers to verify even before renting a place. No internet=no go.

FWIW even if you don't officially have high speed wireless in the area, you might be able to pick it up with a directional antenna. Service areas are generally rated for crappy antennas.
 

jpiniero

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LTE is not really a viable option unless you are lucky enough that they have unlimited packages. Normally the caps on cell data are ridiculously low so it's not really usable as an every day Internet.

5 GB is plenty for regular internet usage for one person. All you would really need is a easy place to temporarily get internet access to download stuff like Windows updates.
 

MrPickins

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I would cancel the plans and look for another place. You could also buy a small property that does have DSL and build a tower to beam to the house with microwave or directional wifi. Or see if you can rent space off an existing cell tower to do it. Probably expensive though.

When I was house hunting one of the main things I was looking for is making sure it was close enough to a central office or an AFC so I could get DSL. If not, at least cable. There was one house in the boonies I really wanted and it did actually have ADSL. Turned out to be too big of a fixerupper though and was kind of far from work. Where I am now I get decent service, even though I'm pretty far from the CO. There's a nearby CO but I'm actually connected to the main one, where interestingly, is where I work. :p

LTE is not really a viable option unless you are lucky enough that they have unlimited packages. Normally the caps on cell data are ridiculously low so it's not really usable as an every day Internet.

Man, you come up with some off the wall ideas. o_O
 

Red Squirrel

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5 GB is plenty for regular internet usage for one person. All you would really need is a easy place to temporarily get internet access to download stuff like Windows updates.

Not really, 5GB is peanuts these days especially with everything wanting to go online and get updates such as Windows, and every other program. Adobe flash, PDF, heck even Linux nowdays is always updating. Then there's stuff like backups. Adds up fast.


That's just general usage. No torrents or streaming or anything. (have not done any of that in over a month)

Though, 5GB on a phone would be pretty awesome... here it's like 50MB. You can go as high as 1GB if you want to pay over $100/mo.
 

Red Squirrel

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Lots of middle-of-nowhere areas in Africa get data coverage before they get electricity and running water.

This. It's easier to put up a tower with 3 or 4 sectors on it and cover large radius than pulling cables to each and every home.

Most highways have cell coverage even though you are in the middle of the boonies with no town within 100km.
 

Sheep221

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I didnt even know that places without wired internet access even exist, how long from nearest village or town you live? If its not that far I would pay extra to ISP for deploying a cable for you. Its the only option actually you have.
 

Kalmah

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I didnt even know that places without wired internet access even exist, how long from nearest village or town you live? If its not that far I would pay extra to ISP for deploying a cable for you. Its the only option actually you have.

I'm about 2 miles outside of a town that has cable from at least one provider.
 

raasco

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Not even AT&T DSL? I figured that was pretty much everywhere in the state with exception of the backwoods parts of the U.P.
 

Kalmah

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Not even AT&T DSL? I figured that was pretty much everywhere in the state with exception of the backwoods parts of the U.P.

Yeah, I tried them. I even called them after their availability search feature failed to find my address. I was surprised as well.
 

Shawn

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5 GB is plenty for regular internet usage for one person. All you would really need is a easy place to temporarily get internet access to download stuff like Windows updates.

I usually use about 75GB/month.
 

Meghan54

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Well it's kind of ridiculous to go through such a big life event as BUYING A HOUSE and not doing the proper research to make sure that house fits your needs.

If you consider convenient internet access to be important, then you better look into what your options are at the new place. This is like if someone considers convenient parking to be extremely important, and then decides to move into an apartment in Manhattan.



Well, not everything you get told prior to buying a house comes to fruition.

When we bought our house, Charter cable swore on two stacks of whatever holy book you choose that they served our house. But when it came time to have it installed, suddenly we were too far away from the closest drop. CS said it'd cost us $1800 to have the cable installed to the house.

We're on the local phone co. DSL. Not horrible but not real good. Latency/lag from hell. Guess I got spoiled with Comcast up on the Cape.

So, even attempting due diligence doesn't always pan out.
 

herm0016

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http://freedomnet.com/

my parents live south of grand rapids, and use this. works well.

many places do not have wired internet, or natural gas, or city water and sewer. the only utility my parents get is power.

I am currently bouncing a signal off of a satalite from the middle of the outback though.
 

Murloc

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it's normal that there isn't internet everywhere in the colonies, there is so much undeveloped space.
It happens even in Europe in mountain villages with few people, they have dial-up but not DSL.

Providing LTE coverage has low infrastructural cost compared to laying cables everywhere, so in rural areas that haven't been inhabited until recently or were always ignored by phone companies it's possible that there is no phone lines but there's wireless internet.
It's actually common in Africa. Thanks to technology they were able to skip a costly infrastructure-building step that the west had to go through and were able to close the gap faster. Technology sure is better than food aid in the long term.
 
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iamwiz82

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Where at in Michigan? My boss has a spot waaaay up in the UP that has fiber and he is 10 miles from the nearest town.
 

Jumpem

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My cousin bought an 86 acre farm without internet. They use smart phones to go online.