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To: FreedomPoster; Blood of Tyrants

You can get decent DSL but the trick is to live near one of the big phone boxes, the size of a shed, that have their own electric service and meter. I didn’t know that when we bought land but got lucky as we have one of those 1/4 mile away. The installer said our signal is as good as his and he lives downtown near the phone company and infrastructure. 15Mbps for $70/mth is our max available service. We went with 10Mbps for $50/mth and can stream TV but not in 4k - 1080p. HD aka 720p is max. I can however watch 1080p youtube videos. All four of us can be doing stuff on our laptops while watching TV. Never tried skype/zoom etc.


21 posted on 10/01/2020 8:09:50 AM PDT by Pollard (You can’t be for “defunding the police” and against “vigilantism” at the same time.)
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To: FreedomPoster; Blood of Tyrants

PS, you better buy land in the boonies soon. People are buying places up here. They’re not necessarily moving here but buying and building weekend retreats. We’re 80 miles from St Louis. I imagine for a lot of them, it’s a place to go if the sthf. One of them who’s owned a place for over a decade did recently move in. I guess he can work remotely because he moved here in May when the state was somewhat locked down and St Louis was very locked down.


23 posted on 10/01/2020 8:17:13 AM PDT by Pollard (You can’t be for “defunding the police” and against “vigilantism” at the same time.)
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To: Pollard

The information out suggests Beta Testers receive in excess of 100 mbit sec with sub 35 msec ping time. Ground equipment may be $300 with a fee of $80 month for a subscriber. Four-to-five satellites should be in range at any given time in open unobstructed terrain.


32 posted on 10/01/2020 4:43:57 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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