How To Get Internet in the Boonies

I didn't think we were that remote when we moved here. We are within sight of state highway 34, surely we can't be that far from civilization. The KOA next door offers free wi-fi to its guests, so it can't be that inaccessible.

We found out otherwise when we tried to get internet installed at our house.

Qwest, the bigger of the 2 major service providers in Colorado, said that they couldn't service us because they haven't laid ground lines on this side of town yet. Comcast doesn't even service the city at all. So our other option was to go with a company called Airbits, which is a local company that provides point-to-point wifi. Basically, they have a giant mother router, and they send out little baby routers to your house. If your router (or radio box) can see the mother radio box, you can receive wifi internet.

So this is what we have now:

It's not terribly fast internet, at least as opposed to what we were used to having when we lived in normal civilization, but it's still internet. The verdict is still out on whether or not it's fast enough to stream our shows on Netflix, but I'm still grateful to have it.

And that's how you get internet in the boonies.