Minnesota Network Services has a wide variety of services available to meet your Internet access or web site hosting needs.
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Dialup service is certainly the most common, and is available in all of our service areas. It uses your regular phone line and modem to "dial up" the Internet, allowing access to all Internet resources.
As it uses your telephone line, other calls to the line used to connect to the Internet will not come through while you are using the Internet. Connect speeds will vary depending on the quality of your phone line, your distance from the telephone company's "central office", as well as other factors.
Monthly service for all areas is still only $19.95 per month!
"Broadband access" is an all-encompassing term used to describe an Internet access service that is faster than speeds available with dialup access, as well as being always on.
Broadband access generally does not tie up your telephone line while you are using the Internet, so if you currently have a second telephone line just for dialup Internet service, or are considering adding another line for Internet service, in most cases dropping or not installing the additional line and installing broadband service is almost the same monthly cost - for greater than 3X the speed of dialup!
Wireless service (WLAN) is currently available in the Boyd / Clarkfield / Marshall / Amiret / Garvin / Tracy / Slayton / Currie / Lake Shetek areas. High speed Internet service is delivered to your location using secure, high speed routers and an antenna. It does not use a telephone line at all, so unlike dialup or DSL, with wireless service you can "cut the cord"!
Service availability depends upon on your location, elevation, and "radio line of sight" to our access points, with monthly charges dependant on the speed you choose. Please contact us at 800-834-3896 to give us your location to check terrain conditions in your area.
Minnesota Network Services does not offer broadband services in all service areas at this time, however we are rapidly adding new wireless technologies and service areas. If you are currently in an area that we do not offer broadband service, but are interested in getting broadband service, please let us know!