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No DSL or Cable Internet access? How about ISDN?

2004-09-20 by Richard Brewster

Have you considered ISDN?  It is telephone line based and available 
where DSL is not.  I found this company by a Google search:

*http://access.aplus.net/isdn.html

-Richard Brewster
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paulhaneberg wrote:

>I too live in the sticks.  We're lucky if we can get 24K dial up 
>here, and the connection drops periodically.
>We have tried satellite and sometimes it works well, other times it 
>works not at all.  It is also expensive.
>We will never have cable as the house is 1/2 mile from the road, 
>which doesn't have cable anyway.
>DSL is out as we're too far away.
>I even looked at getting a T1.  $1000 per month!
>So we're back to dial-up.
>I do have broadband at work though.  I just upgraded ProTools and 
>all my plug-ins.  All the plug-in manuals were pdfs. Many had to be 
>downloaded.  When I printed it all out I ended up with a stack of 
>papers 12" high.  This is getting ridiculous.  Am I supposed to go 
>on line and find a pdf and open it in the middle of a session with a 
>client looking over my shoulder?
>I'm looking forward to getting the CDRom, but I'll download at work 
>if I have to.
>BTW, my brother who lives in a small town in Oregon pays $29.95 a 
>month for fiber!!!  Bnadwidth is over 20M.
>Life ain't fair!
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