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Old 05-10-2013, 01:09 PM
 
Location: East Coast
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Sorry about double posting - I posted earlier about this in St Maries. We're not set on St Maries though, we just want to live somewhere rural and remote.

Long story short - I need steady, relatively fast internet access for my business. Would that be a problem?
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Old 05-10-2013, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Lakeside
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Yes, it can be. We struggled with satellite for years and finally ponied up the money for a T1 so my husband can effectively work from home.
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Old 05-10-2013, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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We use Intermax, they are a wireless service. We have an antenna on the house to communicate with their towers. It has worked very well.
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Old 05-10-2013, 03:19 PM
 
Location: Lakeside
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We use Intermax, they are a wireless service. We have an antenna on the house to communicate with their towers. It has worked very well.
The downside to Intermax is that you have to be in the line of sight of their tower(s). So many rural properties aren't. Like mine.
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Old 05-11-2013, 12:40 PM
 
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I'm curious about the same thing, in Clark Fork. (Or I will be, at some point! ) Are these guys any good?

BroadbandBLUE | Wireless Internet Idaho | ID Rural Internet
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Old 05-13-2013, 09:25 AM
 
Location: Salmon, Idaho
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Hughes Net seems to be the choice in this area for rural customers. Seems to be pretty consistent without a lot of problems.
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Old 05-13-2013, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Lakeside
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Hughes Net seems to be the choice in this area for rural customers. Seems to be pretty consistent without a lot of problems.
It can be troublesome if you're depending on it for running a business. Depending on what the business is. Use up your allotment of bandwidth and you're in trouble.
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Old 05-13-2013, 07:40 PM
 
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I was living about 8 miles out of Clark Fork in the woods and we were always having problems with our internet connection. It was very very slow and we would sometimes have no connection at all.
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Old 05-13-2013, 11:34 PM
 
Location: Sandpoint, ID
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Hughes Net seems to be the choice in this area for rural customers. Seems to be pretty consistent without a lot of problems.
We had the HughesNet business boosted-speed package, and it sucked. Once the data stream started, it was often OK on large file transfers or streaming video, but latency was horrific (often times over 800ms), packet loss was atrocious so surfing the web (our own website and parts catalog when helping our customers) was a frustrating task (usually about 100Kbps average speed in realtime surfing speed, not even double dialup), and HughesNet customer service routes you to call centers in India where they're not only incompetent, but they're rude and feel no burden to help you.

Wild Blue (by comparison) had really outstanding customer service when I dealt with their techs (and located in the Pacific Northwest), but their internet connectivity was not even as good as HughesNet.

I dumped both when I went with a T1, same as Misty.
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Old 05-14-2013, 03:09 PM
 
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We also had Wild Blue and it was not good at all.
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