[Uncle Sausage]

My 24K dial-up is driving me nuts and there's no hope of ever getting a DSL, cable or fiber optic phone lines in this area. I've heard the hardware price is coming down but the monthly fee is still around $70.00.

[Cool Guy]

Check if Sprint Wireless BroadBand access is available in your area, before you go with the satellite internet access.

[Texaggie79]

My dad uses Starband satellite they are in the boon docks. It is nationwide. Great speed, but $70 a month.

[VinnyTex]

Direct TV

and

<Dish Network are both good. I'm thinking of making the switch.

[DeSoto]

I have had Starband internet service for over 14 months and I like it. I live too far away for any other system and my dial up modem topped out at 26.4kbps due to poor quality phone lines.

Dish Network and Starband has a package deal that gave us hundreds of TV and Audio channels for 40 $/mo. with internet capabilities for another 60 $/mo. That seems like a lot until you count what we cancelled to balance it out. The second phone line was 25 $/mo.: The ISP was 20 $/mo. We cancelled two cable TV connections at 28 $/mo. (one for me and one for my mom next door). Therefore we cancelled $25 + $20 + $28 + $28 for a total of $106.00 of cancellations and replaced it with $100 of new monthly charges. After we added another 5 $/mo. for the local channels we are still breaking even.

We have at several times as many TV channels and my internet speed averages around 600 to 700 kbps. I don't have a downside unless you count the couple of times that snow settled on the dish and goofed up the reception until I cleared it off.

Check out Starband.net, I don't think that you will be sorry.

(No, I am not connected with them in any fashion outside of being a happy customer)