Leave it to Farmer City to make a mess

[kidrock]

i have the worst internet story of all , cable , dsl , u verse are all with in a mile of me either way , but i have no access , they say its not feasible to run it down my road unless 50 people will agree to take it , i counted the houses an there is only 21 , soooo , im stuck with Verizon broad band and thats it , i get 7 g,s a month for 60 bucks and its 15 $ a gigg after that .....

Fastford same exact situation with my Father he lived on a dead end road with a few acres of woods right out of city limits in the county, as time went by subdivisions developed all around him right up to the woodline to his backdoor, cable and internet everywhere but the 6 houses on his road lol...and 7 gigs for 60 bucks is highway robbery just for reference I use about 30 gigs a month and thats just me...

Our internet at the ranch has to bounce off a hot spot and is slower than molasses getting going but ok after it finally starts. The TV is by a dish with Direct and normal weather is pretty good but heavy rain or snow takes it out. tried to get a land line for the phones (yeah, I'm old fashioned) with AT&T. that didn't work so I got a hookup with Verizon that would ring at the main house and my cottage. At the cottage you had to grab a phone and run outside to answer it. For $185 a month that got dumped and and after 3 cell phone tries finally got one with Consumer Cellular that works well and is cheap, $21 a month. Ah, the joys of rural living but it still beats the city.

I'm waiting to see what 5g will do for people. I think it could be a game changer. Let's sit back and see what happens.

[turnleftandgasit]

We pay 79 dollars for 300 gb at the previously stated 12dn/2up. While it will run the PPV and other streaming service, everyone in town is off the same antenna so you are also fighting for bandwidth with them. It is up most all the time, great customer service, just maxed out older equipment. Wouldn't matter if they upgraded the equipment, the microwave signal inbound is maxed out also. Hopefully someone puts a fiber across rt 9 from Gibson City to Bloomington and we will have the input we need.