[Yosemitest]

I've got two options, due to living way out in the woods.
Satellite or DSL, because I'm literally at the end of the phone line with AT&T.
My next door neighbor, about 1/4 mile down the road is on a different small town phone line, and cellular service is out of reach at home.
I can drive down the road about 3 miles and get a cell tower with a couple of bars of service.

My latest latency test was about 185m, and that was around 5 am local time.

"... consider getting two drops (installs) out of your wiring. "

Do you have to pay for two separate data lines to get that, with internet service cost on both lines ?

[pepsionice]

The real bottom line on this whole discussion...if one wants non-urban lifestyle living, then this is also part of the acceptance, you won’t have first or second class internet or TV programming.

I would suggest this on HugesNet...it was probably designed for X-amount of customers and service, and the draw went way beyond what they could realistically provide people. Business-wise, I would anticipate a lot of folks leaving it...with some collapse occurring in the next twelve months of the company.

[ConservativeMind]

Yes. In our area, our phone lines had a bunch of extra wires and another DSL line could be created out of those. So you pay for another DSL line with Internet, but now you use half as much over the month from each, so if you had 1 TB without surcharge, you have 2 TB.

There are modems and routers that can negotiate your communications in a transparent manner. Worst case is two separate computers having their own full speed DSL, but not having to do anything to achieve that, as it is automatic.

[central_va]

DSL is usually adequate. Why did you switch?