[Elecraft] OT: Fixing Slow Internet

[Edward R Cole]

Thanks for all the suggestions; probably time to end this thread.

It will be a year till I need to run the long cable from my router to 
the new hamshack.  I'll measure the run and get a premade cat6 cable.

Interesting to hear of the high speed Internet service many of you 
have.  My DSL is 3.5Mbs and only increased from 1Mbs a year ago.  2.4 
GHz is unusable due to wi-fi RFI.  My cordless phone uses 5-GHz.  I 
see interference on 2m thanks to my neighbors wi-fi.

Many parts of AK have no Internet service or only dial-up and TV is 
via satellite feed to a TV translator.  Many towns do not have public 
water or sewer; houses have no plumbing (half the town of Bethel -pop 
4500 has no plumbing and human waste is collected in "honey buckets" 
which are picked up on a weekly schedule).  Bethel is the largest 
town in SW AK with jet air service which is good because its not 
connected to the road system (400mi East).

My home has natural gas heat, a well and septic system, and electric 
power and telephone service but TV is by satellite.  There is no 
cable.  But I live in the 25% of the state with a road 
system.  Reality is a bit different up here. Only fiber-optic cable 
is in Anchorage or the larger cities like Fairbanks and Juneau and 
the trunk lines between cities and lower-48 (undersea cable).

73, Ed - KL7UW
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