Down in this area, rural customers who have Qwest are SOL. Some are very angry about it and have signed petitions to try to force Qwest to get them DSL, but no luck so far. Qwest hasn't even replaced the old US West cabinents sitting in fields. Most are in disrepair so badly that the is no door on them for weather protection. It's amazing that these people's phones still work.
Way back when AT&T first installed telephones in the area, they buried lines between the two major towns La Crecent and Caledonia, then layed out a few branches to smaller towns and then basically told everyone else to eat it, they weren't getting telephones because it was too costly. This caused the local cooperative to be formed, which gave all the rural residents telephones. Now it's time for a repeat of history because the cooperative is now in the process of burying cables right over Qwest's to give customers DSL and they are leaving Qwest in droves as soon as they get the chance. It's kind of pathetic that the cooperative can still turn profits when laying down complete infrastructure and Qwest refuses to do a simple equipment upgrade.
Anyway, I've had satellite internet in the past (was Starband). It's annoying to use with the minimum 1 second resonse times. I would stick with dial-up and try to get pressure on Qwest to get their act together. There's really no excuse for not upgrading equipment to provide everyone with DSL.
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