im to far out for Verizon, no cable on my street, so my only choice is sat.(and an air card is marginal)-the problem with that is i have trees all around, but do have a clear path on my garage, where i have my sat tv dish, and i have a conduit from the garage to the house
for underground wires
i have 2 coax. cables to the house, but one uses the tv dish, and sat int. takes 2 coaxs.
i tried to get them to come out and do a survey, but they said i would have to order the service, then they would mail me the box, then the installer would come out-if he cant install it, i would send the box back-seems kind of stupid to me
i still may order it, and just have them string the lines thru the trees to the house, then bury them next spring
does sat int work ok-i have wild blue and hughes in my area, hughes being $10 more a month

I have direct TV and hughes net for my internet its all that I can get out here in BFE:yes: Its better than nothing and much better than dial up.
If you do get all hooked up go with the best and fastest service that have its worth the extra coin.:yes:

it's a little slower, but better than nothing

I have Sprint wireless. A "thingy" plugs into my laptop (USB). Its about 6 times faster than a dialup where I live. They have a coverage map on their site. The cool thing is that I've used it in about 7 or 8 states and get good signal everywhere I've been. That said, my brother lives 6 miles North of me and its only about 3 times dialup at his house. He went with a different vendor. Its a little pricey I thought ($60 mo) till I started pricing satellite versions.......... and then there IS the mobility thing.

I use Hughes they been around a while. Wild Blue is the new kid on the block
I took advange of a Hughes offer for a free updated Sat Box now I have a spare if anything happens to the first box.
Be careful with Wild Blue they are not apples to apples as far as service and price read the fine print carefully :yes:
I almost got hooked into Wild Blue on a phone call :mad:
hint speed in download they quote you the slow speed of 512kps so its is about $10 cheaper
Hughes 1 MBPS down, 128 KBPS up $59.99
WB 1 MBPS down, 200 KBPS up $69.95