{"id":730,"date":"2008-08-01T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2008-08-01T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:45:23","slug":"update-on-rural-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Update on rural Internet access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/womni-antenna.JPG' title='womni-antenna.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/womni-antenna.JPG' alt='womni-antenna.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Omnidirectional vertical EVDO\/cellular antenna<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/speed-report-8-011.jpg' title='speed-report-8-011.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/speed-report-8-011.jpg' alt='speed-report-8-011.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>DSL speeds!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For reasons I don&#8217;t really understand, I&#8217;m getting better EVDO performance with an omnidirectional antenna than with a directional Yagi antenna pointed at the nearest Alltel tower. Small improvements in antenna placement also have made a substantial improvement. The antenna wants to be high and in the clear (as opposed to perched on the roof of the trailer). The antenna also likes a metal base with ground-plane wires roughly the same length as the antenna. You can see the ground-plane wires dangling from the base of the antenna.<\/p>\n<p>I now feel like I&#8217;m getting my money&#8217;s worth out of Alltel. I&#8217;m also getting a decent Internet experience, at last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omnidirectional vertical EVDO\/cellular antenna DSL speeds! For reasons I don&#8217;t really understand, I&#8217;m getting better EVDO performance with an omnidirectional antenna than with a directional Yagi antenna pointed at the nearest Alltel tower. Small improvements in antenna placement also have made a substantial improvement. The antenna wants to be high and in the clear (as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on rural Internet access&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rural-issues","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}