I live between five and ten miles from a small town. What is the status of WIMAX?
2007-02-26 05:03:14 · 11 answers · asked by Patrick S 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Just where are you located? Do you have your own telephone land line? If you have your own telephone ( not mobile !!!) in your house all you need is to buy an internet card provided by those internet servers. You can buy this at any internet cafe from their suppliers of card games and internet cards. Or you could go and apply to local server. However, living in a rural area proves to be a disadvantage to get a local server like TRI-ISYS because your telephone company will be charging you based on a long distance call and not local connections. So the best that you could do is to buy INTERNET cards with specified number of hours you could log online. There are internet cards that offer free surf during midnight but charges begin as soon as you go online and stops midnight and resume billing the remaining time slot at 8 am...while you are online..so you better save whatever work you might do because the server cuts internet connection without warning upon consumption of the card hour.
This is the best option you can have being in a rural ...without cable or DSL ; provided you have a local land line of your own.
Instructions are provided how to use the internet cards.
Now just remember. " THERE ARE INTERNET CARDS USED EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS." So I suggest for you to read first the scope of its area of responsibility. Buy only the internet card that specifically mention your rural area or the boundary wherein you are included..meaning your Provincial town proper .
Don't go buying just any cards because you will be wasting your money and time in doing so without reading the back part of the internet card indicating the local area where it is applicable. Better yet ask the seller or demand one that covers your area..they know how to look.
Until then...happy surfing!
2007-02-26 06:23:17 · answer #1 · answered by Araceli S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About the only 2 choices for rural homes would be either a wireless solution from a local Wireless phone company or a satellite connection.
Both run a little bit higher in price than cable or dsl and offer much lower speeds than cable, but that's all that is available.
Satellite will need a clear view of the sky, and wireless will usually require a clear view of a wireless tower.
2007-02-26 05:07:21 · answer #2 · answered by phrozen_wolf 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WiMAX is defined as Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access by the ... The original WiMAX standard (IEEE 802.16) specified WiMAX for the 10 to 66 ...
2007-02-26 05:30:53 · answer #3 · answered by Shorty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know anything about WIMAX.
I use a Satellite provider: Wildblue.net and am very happy with the service.
My connection speed is comparable to broadband on downloads. The upload speed is better than telephone modem connection but slower than broadband.
I pay $49.95/month, and the installation/equipment was free. If you call them or check out their website soon, they might still have the free installation promotion going on.
2007-02-26 05:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by flywho 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably still offer ISDN, which is a little better than dial up - if you go with dual-channel ISDN it can get about 128K up/down, but it requires you to have two phone lines, both of which are busy while you are online.
Single channel ISDN is around 64K, and only uses one phone line, but ties it up as well.
Wireless (cell) internet is coming up in the world, but probably too expensive for normal users. You might look and see if any satellite providers offer internet for reasonable prices.
2007-02-26 05:09:04 · answer #5 · answered by joemammysbigguns 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WiMax is still currently under developement but not really get that far.
I would go to this link. http://shopfort1.com/index.cfm?&cogid=bopkasen&refid=www.ld.net/
Enter your address and see if you qualified for Hugh.net.
Hugh.net is a internet satililite service and are mostly for people like you.
2007-02-26 05:08:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look into satellite internet from Hughes. According to the commercials, all you need is a clear view of the southern sky.
2007-02-26 05:07:09 · answer #7 · answered by smartypants909 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Call peoplepc 1-888-587-9669 dial up connection my sis is doing the same . i think yhey are kinda slow tho and i hope u get some one who speaks english lmao
2007-02-26 05:15:57 · answer #8 · answered by farmman006410 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
satelite Broadband, theres a company called Hughes net and the provide satelite broadband
2007-02-26 05:07:23 · answer #9 · answered by Call me Dick, Mr Head 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
satellite is the best if not only option.
2007-02-26 05:09:02 · answer #10 · answered by S A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋