Help setting up my remote cabin for phone/internet

[Cascadia]

Hello all!

I get to the point, I will be moving into a remote cabin I remodeled over the summer, it is a ways out in the boonies, in some fairly tall hills.

Getting a landline for phone would be nearly imposible(and expensive), but luckly I am high enough that I get excelent cell phone sevice(the deep valleys here are dead zones). I plan to get a Bluetooth enabled cell phone and car dock, and headset to use as my home phone. The car dock will allow me to plug the phone directly into my 12volt Solar electric system, and will also allow the use of a high gain outdoor cell phone antenna pointed directly at the nearest cell tower.

The next problem is internet......Satellite internet looks awesome, except for the $54 a month sub, as does the rediculous installation fee.

So I am wondering, is there a way to hook up my computer to dialup through my cell phone?

 

[NOKUY]

ive heard bad things about hughes net

...not about their service, but about their business policies

congrats on gettin the fuk up out this bitch!

 

[Toby Dammit]

If your phone has a usb port you may be able to hook it to the computer and use it as a modem. If you don't want to monopolize your phone line there are also specific cards and usb modems designed for using with a pc. You'd have to buy one and set it up with your cell service provider as a second line.

 

[goodmangigabyte]

If you get a cell signal, you should look into the wireless internet options offered by cell phone companies: they give you a card and a password and you can log into their cellular internet service from pretty much anywhere you can get a cell signal. I think it's as fast as low grade DSL, but it's expensive too, like satellite, 50 or more a month.
When you're off grid like that, I don't think any sort of internet service is going to be cheap...

 

[NOKUY]

If you get a cell signal, you should look into the wireless internet options offered by cell phone companies: they give you a card and a password and you can log into their cellular internet service from pretty much anywhere you can get a cell signal. I think it's as fast as low grade DSL, but it's expensive too, like satellite, 50 or more a month.
When you're off grid like that, I don't think any sort of internet service is going to be cheap...

wont be cheap, but will be worth whatever it costs.

 

[Verite]

Only way you'll get anything faster than aol phone dial up is to piggyback on another service like cable TV or Dish tv.

 

[Jack D Ripper]

get satellite internet, and use some VOIP service (like skype) instead of a cell phone... it will be cheaper than paying for a cell phone and internet.

 

[gramsci.antonio]

Here the shepherd use IR bridges. To have phone in the house on the mountains they use an IR bridge connected to another place where there's the phone.

Same for internet, but nobody use internet on mountains.


It's the cheapest way, directional dishes can cover many kilometers with few bucks.

 

[Cascadia]

congrats on gettin the fuk up out this bitch!

Thankyou! I and I have been in Babylon too long!
I love being away from shallow modern civilization, I'm poor because of it, but happier than 5 Million dollars could make me. Give me some pussy, some homemade beer, and some homegrown, and I'm a happy mountain man.

get satellite internet, and use some VOIP service (like skype) instead of a cell phone... it will be cheaper than paying for a cell phone and internet.

A freind of mine suggested this, can you send and recieve through the sattelite dish? I assumed that you still need another form of internet to send info? Am I wrong, or am I overlooking the obvious answer?

Wireless is available from towers on the same mountain I am recieving cell service from, when I talked to the providers thay said that if I could see their tower from my home that I could use their service. Of course there are too many hill tops and distance to see the tower, but perhaps I could use a high gain antenna to boost that service too......

All and all, I'd like to find a way to use the dial-up through the cell phone, I'm sure it would be cheaper in the end, and I don't care if it ties up the line, I don't really want to talk to folks in the "real" world anyways, LOL!!

 

[pakm4n]

yea i think your best bet is the satellite internet if you get reception but the usb air card provided through your cell phone service will work if you get reception out there

 

[Mr.Rogers]

unless you have unlimited minutes on your cellphone plan it would probably be more expensive to use it for a dialup connection. you'd probably be better off getting a phone with mobile web with unlimited data and just use that. my experience with the cheaper phones is that their mobile web is so slow and shitty it's basically pointless to try and use it but if you get one of the more expensive phones like a blackberry or treo, the kinda phone that has windowsmobile, they usually have good internet that is pretty fast


that is if you're just trying to get a phone and internet access for as cheap as possible. if you want to be able to use the net on your computer and not have to type on a little phone when you're posting on icmag, you should probably just spend the cash to get satellite internet