Rural Broadband: High speed Internet for people living in the sticks « StraightUpSearch

My folks live in the very house that I grew up in, and cable television still isn’t available in their area – also eliminating the option for cable broadband internet.

Their local AT&T telephone service said the current telephone wires and connection boxes in place are too old to support DSL broadband, and that is also the reason why their current dial up internet access is about half as slow as it should be (resulting in some truly sluggish speeds)...