The people of New Hampshire mean business as you can tell from their state motto, ‘Live Free or Die’! Since their efforts to free our country were successful we thankfully appreciate their part in the American Revolution and what they have given us since then in the way of technology and tourism. Check out a few tourist spots listed below.

New Hampshire’s covered bridges number in the hundreds with some dating back over a century. Most have been replaced over the years due to flood or fire damage but, old or new, they are a wonder to behold. Instead of emailing a neighbor with your rural high speed satellite internet service you would saddle up a horse and use one of these bridges to cross whatever river or brook came between you and the other side.

Instead of having your own satellite internet connection you could have your own covered bridge! At times, a single family unit was the only one to utilize a bridge to get to town or go a-visiting. The old Blacksmith Shop Bridge in Cornish is one such bridge; built in 1881 for one family, and one family only, so they could get back and forth between their home and the blacksmith shop.

Walking through one of these beauties can’t help but evoke a past where the clopping of a horse’s hooves probably echoed loudly as they passed through the wooden tunnel, disappearing from sight and then reappearing on the other side of the bridge. I can imagine a few horror stories that have probably utilized the disappearance of a character that enters but does not exit! It seems to me, the Headless Horseman made use of a few of these structures as he terrorized the countryside of Sleepy Hollow.

Creepiness aside, New Hampshire is a fabulous state. Although it only has about 18 miles of shoreline on the Atlantic Ocean the fishing industry and the views rival any other coastal state. Climb to the top of Mount Washington (if you can!) and you may experience a weather phenomenon or two. Record wind gusts of up to 231 mph and winter temperatures of 50 degrees below zero may hamper your trip, but if you pick the right time to go you won’t be sorry. They literally have to chain down the few buildings that are there as well as the observatory!

You can bet that high speed rural satellite internet is very useful at the highest point in the Northeastern United States. People do live and work at the top, as there are a couple of hotels chained down here also. The one and only house that was built there in 1821 blew away in an 1826 storm, thus the necessity of tying buildings to the ground!

So clip clop your way through the covered bridges, visit a beach and hike or ski to your heart’s content safe in the knowledge that that is not the only way to get around the ‘Granite State’. Hook up some High Speed Rural Broadband Internet Service and you can ‘surf’ your way across this great state!

I have been beta testing for Microsoft since Windows 98 and it has been a very worthwhile endeavor. However, this is my first experience doing beta testing while being connected to WildBlue Satellite Internet. This added a whole new dimension to the testing process because I wanted to test the stability and compatibility of Microsoft’s beta releases.

I am very happy to report that the switch over was seamless. WildBlue performed at the same level of excellence as it does on my

current operating system. At first I was completely unaware that I was testing in a new environment due to having DSL in previous testing.

I have two hard drives on that machine. One is on the ‘C’ drive and the other is running on a totally different drive, the ‘D’ drive. I am dual booting the system. For those not familiar with this term, at start up I have a choice of booting into both operating systems. Each operating system runs independently of the other and all hardware is installed twice.

This gives me a real world environment in which to see the performance of WildBlue Satellite Internet Service without any crossover from the other operating system. As I stated above, there were no added steps involved and WildBlue ran flawlessly.

I have yet to run the ‘Windows Optimizer’, supplied by WildBlue, on the beta releases. This is the utility that puts the icon for the Portal, Help and Web Mail used by WildBlue Satellite Internet Service. This is the next test I will be performing. I expect it to work as it has in the past, but stay tuned to this spot for an update within the next few days.

Any of you testing for Microsoft while using WildBlue? I would be interested in any feedback you may have. The more we test and debug, the better the user experience will be when Microsoft releases its products. I am very pleased with the results I have had using WildBlue Internet Service. I also welcome any and all questions having to do with WildBlue and issues you may be having using it with your particular operating system. So, let’s talk!

Now these are supposed to be “hard times” for Americans, economically speaking. Yet, as the price tag for any given item at the local store goes up the products are still being purchased here in the states.  Now don’t get me wrong, i’m all for supporting local business, but when it comes down to me either breaking the bank shopping locally or shopping somewhere else where the same items are cheaper, I’m picking my well being (call me selfish).

What I’ve found recently, even though this has been going on for more than a decade now, is that just about everything actually IS cheaper when you buy online.  Shopping online, when using high speed Internet, allows you to look for a specific item or just browse through an online shopping center just as you would at a mall.

Also, you can buy second hand and refurbished items for half of what a new item would run. From computer parts to fresh sushi – groceries to jet engines; you name it, they got it.  All you have to have is a direct connection to that vast web of competing prices, a high speed Internet connection.  If you can’t find a local cable or DSL provider, call WildBlue, the satellite high speed Internet company that just merged with ViaSat, probably the biggest tech oriented corporation in the world, and they can get you DSL comparable speeds in the darkest of caves just as long as they’re in the continental United States.  These guys also constantly run promotions to encourage new subscribers  to join, so check ‘em out on the web at mybluedish.com.  There is absolutely no reason to suffer through paying those high prices at the local stores when you can get the same thing, if not better, on the internet.  In addition, you can save money on gas.

Single parents and low income families can now apply for benefits to receive food stamps, unemployment, student loans and just about every other kind of state or federally funded aide program via high speed Internet.  These kinds of programs can play a pivotal role in maintaining the well-being of a family in times of economic stress, and anyone who has had dealings with these agencies know all-to-well how much of a hassle it can be to go back and forth between offices (as their lines are always busy and lobbies forever full). This can be an especially daunting task when one lives in one of the millions of rural areas in America.

Thankfully, there is an affordable solution for those of you in rural America who can’t obtain high speed Internet by any other means.  Mybluedish.com, provides an easy-to-understand website, with a sales staff of 100% American representatives who can walk you step-by-step through your purchase and can even inform you, to the best of their abilities, about some of these government agencies or at least how to access the websites that will allow you to communicate with these agencies to get the help you need and deserve.  As a matter of fact with  you might be able to find an additional source of income through a website like eBay or even start your own Internet business.  There are numerous stories of people that have been down on their luck and have found a second chance through making money on the Internet.  If you are a college student or someone who thinks you would like to pave a better career for yourself by getting an education you can even find ways to pay for college through high speed Internet.  With websites like GradeFund you can actually get people to pay you for going to school and making good grades.  So, if you are going through difficult times the way out just might be through high-speed Internet.

Through my years of strife and struggle I have come to realize an almost universal truth; most people would prefer to do as little as they can to obtain as much as possible.  Sure this sounds lazy, but it’s the American way.  People and companies alike are always trying to find the most efficient, easiest solution to any given problem.  That doesn’t mean cutting corners necessarily, it just means that we want to cut out any unnecessary steps involved in the process. For example, a person who buys and sells on ebay for a living but doesn’t have access to a high speed connection has a couple choices: either drive down to a WIFI hot-spot somewhere in town and essentially work from their car ( which cost gas money, is probably uncomfortable, and is maybe even a little degrading). Or they could visit mybluedish.com, who provides high speed Internet to the rural areas of America, talk to a representative on the telephone about the specifics, and set a date to have their own high speed connection installed at their home.  This will, I promise you, increase your productivity and by having a high speed connection at home one would be more inclined to further research other avenues of financial gain just because it’s now there at home and not many miles away.  Buying and selling products on ebay is just one example of the many possibilities available to make money on the Internet.  Having access to high speed Internet can open up a world of financial opportunity.

My advice, give mybluedish.com a call at 877-336-0011, and a professional AMERICAN rep will go over any quarks you may have and put you on the fast track to independent success.  If you have questions or comments about satellite Internet in general feel free to respond to this post, and I will do my best to address them.

In light of recent legislation and President Obama’s plan to create a better broadband network for rural Americans I have decided to start a series dedicated to satellite broadband networks in other countries.  Today, we will take a look at what Japan is doing with their satellite internet technology.  Japan is unique to the U.S. in that it suffers a significantly larger amount of earthquakes.  Therefore, it is very important for the country to have a communication infrastructure that can withstand such major natural disasters.  Also unlike the United States the Japanese Government directly funds their satellite internet networks.  A couple years ago Japan launched what was known as the KIZUNA satellite, with the primary intent of creating a backup high-speed internet networking system that would replace its ground network during natural disasters.  As it turns out this satellite is quite capable of facilitating a stand-alone high speed internet network.  This satellite contains two antennas, one of which will be dedicated to other Asian countries and will permit high-speed internet communications via satellite between Japan and neighboring countries.  Of course the other antenna is dedicated to serving Japan.  Dividing the satellite into two multibeam antennas allows it to efficiently divide up the satellite’s signal so that the limited frequencies can be made available and reused by many different areas.  This new satellite will provide high-speed internet with download speeds of 155mbps and upload speeds of 6mbps.  The satellite will be able to provide download speeds of up to 1.2gbps to commercial customers.  These types of speeds are significantly faster than what even today’s fiber optics internet networks can provide and are unheard of speeds for the satellite internet industry.  In addition to functioning as a communication network backup system this new satellite internet service will also target Japan’s rural citizens that do not have access to the country’s fiber optic network and have been forced to receive internet service via DSL.