Looking for High-Speed 'Net Access? Go to Ignacio.

• Author: LAINSON, SUZANNE
• Position: Brief Article

Tired of waiting for AT&T to hook you up to cable Internet access? Move to Ignacio south of Durango. Rural Route Video is offering two-way, 10 Mbps, managed service for $45 a month for one computer, $15 a month each for more.

Owner Chris May said Local phone service is so bad in Ignacio that the only way to get high-speed Internet access is to avoid US West completely. Satellites provide the [ink to the outside world. "We have two gateways onto the Internet in Denver, through RML.Net and UUNet," May said. "We have a two-way satellite in conjunction with about a dozen other operators across the nation. We don't use one piece of telephone company resource.

The system is impressively easy and inexpensive to run.

"We can go to any communications backwater, plunk this thing in under a cable plant, plug it up, turnkey it for the operator in a joint venture, and he can be running in 60 to 90 days," May said. "Any business that has one or two T-1s can afford this. They don't even have to go through the cable modem platform."

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