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["tkarches AT imapmail.org" <tkarches AT imapmail.org>]

lance AT bearcircle.net wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Has anyone here done the work to get a high speed internet connection at
> their church?
>
> Time Warner is telling me I need to get a business class RR account at
> $99/month.
>
> I'm interested what others are doing for this need.

We were using the Nextel Wireless service until it was cancelled. Our 
church was too far from the BellSouth facility to get DSL, and business 
class RoadRunner was not available on our side of Wade Ave.

We had to sign a 2 year contract at $200/month so that they would run a 
cable under Wade Ave. :-(. Contract is up next month. I need to see if 
we can get the $99 rate.

While the Nextel was down before we could get RoadRunner, I used an 
Apple Airport and 56K dialup. It worked remarkably well. Since our mail 
was all IMAP, the bandwidth was not a huge issue.

The RR contract is about up, and I'm thinking of switching the service 
to Clearwire wireless internet (reborn Nextel wireless).

I have been using Clearwire at home for about 6 months now. The 
bandwidth is lower, but the latency is better than the RoadRunner 
service I used to have. Antenna placement can be an issue, but I am 
using "ethernet over powerline" (Homeplug) adapters which allows the 
antenna and the router to be in different rooms without having to run Cat-5.

--tom


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