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    Wireless Internet

    Does anyone have recommendations for wireless internet? I've tried satellite(wild blue), cellular (Sprint) and they are hugely inferior to Comcast or DSL. Appreciate any feedback!
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    Re: Wireless Internet

    There's some info on this thread.

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    Does anyone have recommendations for wireless internet? I've tried satellite(wild blue), cellular (Sprint) and they are hugely inferior to Comcast or DSL. Appreciate any feedback!
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    Re: Wireless Internet

    Any signal going thru the air will have much less bandwidth than a cable/hardwired signal. Think of it as different size hoses. If a Comcast cable is a fire hose, then cellular is more like a garden hose and takes longer to deliver the same gallon of water. Having said that and depending on where you live, you might try Sonic.net or their microwave partner, CDS? not sure about that name, I don't think it's CVS Microwave is kind of like satellite in terms of throughput or overall speed. If Sonic fusion is available to your location it's a great deal and very fast.

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    Does anyone have recommendations for wireless internet? I've tried satellite(wild blue), cellular (Sprint) and they are hugely inferior to Comcast or DSL. Appreciate any feedback!
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    Re: Wireless Internet

    Wildblue has a new satellite. The upload is still slow, but we're getting better than 15 mbps download for our 50 bucks/month.
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    tammatha
     

    Re: Wireless Internet

    U-Verse (AT&T) has been great! If you bundle you can get a pretty good rate. Good Luck! Tammatha

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    Re: Wireless Internet

    The CDS wireless internet was formerly pogowave. It is tremendously better than satellite because it does not have the delay where you have to wait for every upload and download to start. It's more like DSL in that sense. For West County people who can't get DSL or cable, it is a godsend.

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    Any signal going thru the air will have much less bandwidth than a cable/hardwired signal. Think of it as different size hoses. If a Comcast cable is a fire hose, then cellular is more like a garden hose and takes longer to deliver the same gallon of water. Having said that and depending on where you live, you might try Sonic.net or their microwave partner, CDS? not sure about that name, I don't think it's CVS Microwave is kind of like satellite in terms of throughput or overall speed. If Sonic fusion is available to your location it's a great deal and very fast.
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    sbridge
     

    Re: Wireless Internet

    I tried to get high speed internet recently from Sonic as I am a long time user of Sonic but they told me other than dialup, they do not have any available services in my West County area.
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    tammatha
     

    Re: Wireless Internet

    Yes, I too had Sonic for 15+ years and had to switch to Uverse for the same reason, no high speed.
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    Re: Wireless Internet

    You can keep sonic email for just a few dollars a month and get wildblue satellite broadband, about all that's available in West County and better than hughes.net. I was on sonic's broadband waiting list for a long time but it wasn't moving. Now I still have the great tech support!

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    I tried to get high speed internet recently from Sonic as I am a long time user of Sonic but they told me other than dialup, they do not have any available services in my West County area.
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