By Anon June 18, 2011
When it works, it's great. Infodash/Yelcot provides ASDL internet that costs $5 more than what I paid for Cox cable internet, and while the speeds are "faster" than cable internet, in practice they're not fast at all. The internet service fluctuates constantly. Way more than I had with ADSL service with AT&T when I lived in Northwest Arkansas, where I paid less and got a faster download speed. I'm paying for 3.0 Mbps download speed, and I regularly cannot even download 1Mbps. I just speedtested since my internet was running unimaginably slow, and I got a whopping 0.87 Mbps.... that I pay $50 a month for. The service is really unstable, and while I know it's a rural area, I wish there were other ISP options in Yellville. I give it 2 stars instead of 1, because it DOES work, but not with any degree of reliability. Yelcot needs to install more broadband stations or signal boosting stations in Yellville/Summit or something. ...read more
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