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Rural/Farm Life

jcgoldie

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4. All I can get is satellite

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed Apr 3, 2019, 09:09 AM

Apr 2019

No DSL, no wifi, nada. I'm about 8 miles outside a town of 40 k and 25 mi north of St.Louis. I get calls from the cable company offering to hook me up all the time. I say go for it. Then in a couple hours they call back and say sorry you are 3500 feet too far.

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Broadband [View all] littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 OP

Surrounded by 3 small towns with independent phone co's all have fiber to the house. IADEMO2004 Feb 2019 #1

yup... centurylink here also... 912gdm Feb 2019 #3

I hear you Kali Feb 2019 #2

All I can get is satellite jcgoldie Apr 2019 #4