Rural Internet

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rural Internet is the access to the Internet from rural areas (also referred to as "the country" or "countryside"), which are settled places outside towns and cities. Inhabitants live in villages, hamlets, on farms and in other isolated houses. Mountains and other terrain can impede rural Internet access. Most rural access to Internet is voiceband by 56k modem but poor phone lines in many rural areas, many of them installed or last upgraded between 1930s and the 1960s, may limit actual download speeds to 23-26K or less. Since many of these lines serve relatively few customers, phone company maintenance and speed of repair of these lines has actually degraded over the past fifteen years, leaving their upgrade for modern quality requirements unlikely.