I live in a rural Door County location halfway between Fish Creek and Baileys Harbor. Charter Communications provides a great high-speed cable service but, they don’t have a connection “node” in my neighborhood, despite the fact that the cable runs up County A, less than a hundred feet from my home. So, I tried a satellite dish from WildBlue. It was better than dial-up, but not by much. The upload speed was very slow and on rainy days it just didn’t work at all – in either direction. WildBlue never mentioned having a 2GB cap on bandwidth, so in the second month I hit their limit and my service started slowing down dramatically. I called tech support and they had two higher levels of service that would “solve” the problem. It was costing me more than a hundred and twenty dollars a month to connect my office to the Internet when I got a call from Chris Ranly…
He’s a Cellcom Agent. Chris brought over a new product being tested in Door County that was hooked up and working, connecting me to the Web in minutes. Cellcom’s new EVDO Rev A wireless router links in to the network using their existing cell phone towers. It even has a built-in battery pack. I can take it to the beach or on board my sailboat and work on-line! It doesn’t require any additional dish attachments or wiring and I can connect to it with a regular ethernet cable or over the wireless network that it creates – so it serves up multiple connections.
Are you ready to leap into the high-speed digital world? Use this form to ask Chris for a free one-month trial to see if this makes you as happy as it does me!
We’ve been using the Cellcom device for a month now and are very pleased. Since my husband & I use separate computers, it’s a delight that we can both be online at the same time. Formerly, one of us had to hang up so that the other could go online. It’s cost effective in that we are able to dispense with the extra, dedicated phone line that we used to serve our computers. The only downside is educating the people in my address book to change to my new email account.