Comments on: Internet Access: Alternates to Cable and High-Speed Dialup http://www.rajdash.com/internet-access-alternates-to-cable-and-high-speed-dialup/ Lessons in Tech, Mobile, Social Media, Web Working, and Digital Nomadry Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:03:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Raj Dash http://www.rajdash.com/internet-access-alternates-to-cable-and-high-speed-dialup/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Raj Dash Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:32:41 +0000 http://www.rajdash.com/internet-access-alternates-to-cable-and-high-speed-dialup/#comment-340 Bloggrrl, thanks for stopping by. That sounds like a very cool opportunity for you. With the Wi-Fi to go, you have to be near a big city, else the provider's cellular grid may not cover you. I assume you mean Taos, New Mexico? I don't know how big Taos is. If that doesn't work, you could try satellite. But if you get a gas generator, you'd be okay, too, I think, provided either cell grid or satellite service covers you in Taos. Consider this: if you can be covered with cellular Wi-Fi, you can be covered with Wi-Fi to go. And with the latter, you get a faster upload and download speed. And mobility. For example, with my router now, I can use it where I'm living, about an hour SouthWest of Toronto, Canada. When I move to Toronto later this year, all I have to do is take the router with me and plug it in. I can use the same router in any large Canadian city, without any extra cost. That's true of your cellular Wi-Fi, but the rates can be ridiculous. Since some providers are pushing Wi-Fi to go, they have specials on right now. I'm not sure, but I think Verizon has something. I'm pretty sure Comcast does not. At any rate, ask around before you commit. They all have stupidly long commitment durations. Good luck. It sounds like you could have some very nice novel writing time on that land :) Bloggrrl, thanks for stopping by. That sounds like a very cool opportunity for you. With the Wi-Fi to go, you have to be near a big city, else the provider’s cellular grid may not cover you. I assume you mean Taos, New Mexico? I don’t know how big Taos is.

If that doesn’t work, you could try satellite. But if you get a gas generator, you’d be okay, too, I think, provided either cell grid or satellite service covers you in Taos.

Consider this: if you can be covered with cellular Wi-Fi, you can be covered with Wi-Fi to go. And with the latter, you get a faster upload and download speed. And mobility. For example, with my router now, I can use it where I’m living, about an hour SouthWest of Toronto, Canada. When I move to Toronto later this year, all I have to do is take the router with me and plug it in. I can use the same router in any large Canadian city, without any extra cost. That’s true of your cellular Wi-Fi, but the rates can be ridiculous. Since some providers are pushing Wi-Fi to go, they have specials on right now. I’m not sure, but I think Verizon has something. I’m pretty sure Comcast does not. At any rate, ask around before you commit. They all have stupidly long commitment durations.

Good luck. It sounds like you could have some very nice novel writing time on that land :)

]]> By: Bloggrrl http://www.rajdash.com/internet-access-alternates-to-cable-and-high-speed-dialup/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Bloggrrl Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:14:21 +0000 http://www.rajdash.com/internet-access-alternates-to-cable-and-high-speed-dialup/#comment-339 This is interesting, Raj. I have some sweet off-grid land in Taos, and while I've figured that I can live with water by the tank and no electricity except for the occasional generator, a lack of high-speed internet would be absolutely unacceptable, and would defeat my purpose of living as a writer in Georgia O'Keefe country. I would have to go with the cellular wi-fi, the prices of which made my eyes unattractively bulge out of my head. This is interesting, Raj. I have some sweet off-grid land in Taos, and while I’ve figured that I can live with water by the tank and no electricity except for the occasional generator, a lack of high-speed internet would be absolutely unacceptable, and would defeat my purpose of living as a writer in Georgia O’Keefe country. I would have to go with the cellular wi-fi, the prices of which made my eyes unattractively bulge out of my head.

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