subject: Dial-up, Satellite Internet: Which Is Better For Your Oklahoma Home? [print this page] If you live in a rural or remote part of the state of Oklahoma, you may not have access to the high speed wired Internet services that many people living in big cities across the country take for granted. This is because, even though providers of such wired broadband services as DSL and cable have been making big efforts to offer their services to more and more people all the time, the fact of the matter is there remain a lot of places where their networks simply do not reach. If you are an Oklahoma resident in one of these places, then you will have two basic options in terms of Internet service. These are dial up service and satellite Internet broadband. So, how do you know which is the better option for your home?
Though increasingly considered by many people to be somewhat outdated, dial up Internet does come with a number of advantages over satellite service. For one thing, it is cheaper. If you look only at price and nothing else, dial up definitely seems like a better deal than satellite Internet. For dial up, it is unlikely that you will have to pay more than twenty dollars per month for service. Plus, usually there are very few additional fees that dial up users have to pay, unless they want to have an additional phone line installed in their home in order to be able to talk on the phone and use the Internet at the same time. Satellite service, on the other hand, typically costs anywhere from forty dollars to several hundred dollars every month. And in some cases, you will have to pay for expensive equipment and installation.
Dial up is also sort of the tried and true choice for technology conservatives who do not need the Internet for much more than simply checking and responding to emails periodically. It is reliable and fairly convenient. However, dial up service does tie up phone lines, and if you are going to be online for extended periods of time, it will probably be necessary to get an extra phone line if you want people to be able to call you. Satellite Internet, on the other hand, like DSL and cable services, does not tie up phone lines. You can use the Internet and the phone simultaneously to your hearts content without ever having to worry about additional phone lines.
Satellite Internet is also much faster than dial up Internet 50 times faster, in some cases. And despite the fact that severely bad weather can temporarily interrupt signals or permanently damage your satellite dish or other pieces of equipment, for the most part satellite signals are strong and trustworthy. And as satellite technology continues to improve, these problems will become less and less of an issue.
So, when you are deciding whether dial up or satellite Internet is the right choice for your Oklahoma home, you need to not only think about how much money you are spending, but also about the value of what you are getting for that money. In the end, if it is broadband speeds you are after, then satellite service is worth the extra money.
