The cable company continues insisting they cannot install cable at my house, because it would cost too much. They say, if I lived on the main road, they would install cable. They say, down a private road, it costs $18 a foot... which, because my house is 1/4mile away, is like $30,000. What i'm saying though, is why do they need to run a wire all the way to my house? Why not install the modem at the beginning of the road, where they already said they would be willing to (if my house was there), and then get the connection the rest of the way using directional antenna's and routers? They could plant a lockbox, with electricity, right by where the private road begins. In the lockbox goes the modem and one of the routers. The other router is located at my house. They both use directional antenna's, pointed at each other. I've found directional antenna's, when pointed at each other, capable of 14 miles. I've seen other's capable of 1.5 miles. We're only talking about a distance of 1/4mile. To set this whole thing up... would only cost about $300. Routers are cheap, the directional antenna's are cheap, an electrician is cheap, and certainly, a lockbox is cheap.

Are they crooks, attempting to extort money from people who live down private roads, are they incompetent, or do they just not care about the small amount of profit to be gained from the rare cases such as my own? Meanwhile, satellite internet seems to be getting worse by the day.