{"id":7129,"date":"2022-01-17T13:53:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2022-01-17T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:53:34","slug":"help-i-live-on-the-information-dirt-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/help-i-live-on-the-information-dirt-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! I live on the Information Dirt Road!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Evil Princess, here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am appealing to all of Mas\u2019 readers out there in your backwoods homes to help us with our internet problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started out with Hughesnet (Satellite) but they have usage limits and we found ourselves throttled down way before the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Windstream, our landline provider, made DSL available we signed up for that but it was slow especially with both of us using it so we put in a second line, that was workable for a while. Then a booster became available, the only installed it on one line, never would give an explanation why, would never come back out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steadily our service got slower over the years and Windstream\u2019s answer is basically, that\u2019s all you\u2019re going to get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have basically stopped taking my calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have tried mobile hotspots from AT&amp;T and Verizon but out cell-fu is weak here too. We don\u2019t even have T-Mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, now I am on my annual search for something that will work for us. I am waiting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starlink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starlink<\/a> but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s happening anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are high-volume users; I am transmitting high-res photos every day and videos quite often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am tired of sitting in parking lots trying to get a signal. That\u2019s why I\u2019m appealing to the Backwoods Home readers for help. I would love to hear what has worked for you in a remote area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil Princess, here. I am appealing to all of Mas\u2019 readers out there in your backwoods homes to help us with our internet problems. We started out with Hughesnet (Satellite) but they have usage limits and we found ourselves throttled down way before the end of the month. When Windstream, our landline provider, made DSL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7131,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}