East Texas Wifi Internet Service Provider

January 20th, 2010

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Choices Among Internet Providers in Tyler Texas

If you are like me and live out in the country you don’t have as many choices as someone living in the city limits of Tyler. There are a lot of things that I don’t have the privilege of doing without paying more money such as having a fast internet connection and going to the Tyler Public Library. Both of these things I will end up paying much more for than the average Tyler Texas joe living in the city limits. For those inside the city you can go with Suddenlink cable internet or AT&T highspeed internet service.

There are now even more internet options available for those in and outside the city of Tyler Texas than there has been for many years. There are these highspeed wireless PC cards offered by all the major cell phone carriers that allow you to plug a PC card into your laptop or desktop computer and have a fairly fast wireless internet service. The downside to the PC card wireless access is if you go over your usage limit you could be charged as high as 25 cents per megabyte. Those megabytes go pretty quick especially if you watch Youtube videos or download software.

Best Deal On Wireless Internet PC Card Service In Tyler

As far as cell phone wireless internet PC card service the best deal in Tyler is probably with Sprint although their coverage is spotty out in the country. The fastest and pretty good coverage in and outside the city of Tyler is with Verizon. Verizon will charge you 25 cents per megabyte if you go over your usage limit which is why I no longer use this company. Sprint only charges 5 cents per megabyte if you go over their limit however they also have an unlimited usage plan for a little more money.

Which Wireless Internet PC Card I Prefer The Most

AT&T’s wireless internet PC card goes by the name aircard and offers great speeds and coverage in the city of Tyler although the coverage gets a little spotty depending on where in the country you may be living in Smith County. Overall I prefer the speed of Verizon wireless internet PC card, the price and coverage of the Sprint wireless PC card, and enjoy the speed and coverage of AT&T’s aircard provided you use it within the city of Tyler and not out in the country.

Best Choice For Wireless Internet in Tyler Texas

For an even faster wireless internet outside the city limits of Tyler I recommend going with a wifi service that broadcasts from tower antennas. There is a company by the name of East Texas Wifi that I use and I love the service, low latency and internet speed they offer. There is another wireless internet company that competes with them called DCTexas Internet and they also boast some very fast speeds and low latency. Low latency simply means that any downloads you do will be very quick. If you were to compare the latency of a satellite internet service as you would get with Hughes net it would be a night and day difference. For instance, if you attempted to watch a funny youtube video with Hughes net you might as well queue it up and go eat a sandwich before it will be ready. With East Texas Wifi you will be able to watch the movie immediately almost as if you turned on TV to watch a show you like.

Stay Away From Hughes.net Satelite Internet Service!

WARNING!!! If you live in Tyler Texas or around the area avoid Hughes net at all costs! They will have you commit to a contract while wireless internet service companies like East Texas wifi will put you on a month to month plan. Once you are locked into the Hughes net contract you will quickly discover that the internet service is very slow and reminiscent of old dial up service back in the olden days. You will pay a high price for this lousy internet service too. It simply is not worth it and everyone I have spoken with about Hughesnet in Tyler have told me just how much they hate their internet service.

Contact Our Preferred East Texas Wireless Internet Provider

If you would like to contact our preferred East Texas wireless internet service provider please contact East Texas wifi at : 903-534-8888

You may also visit their website at : East Texas Wifi

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Tyler Energy Companies, Recession Proof

January 12th, 2010

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Tyler Texas is home to a large amount of oil and drilling companies, machine shops, natural gas, and oil refining companies. Tyler and the East Texas area actually did great even during the depression because of our reliance upon the energy field as our primary income source for our economy. Now Tyler and East Texas is also known for being a strong medical center having some of the top facilities and doctors in the country for certain procedures. Even if the energy sector were to decline the medical area in Tyler would still thrive as everyone needs medical care. Everyone also needs oil, natural gas, and gasoline but sometimes the price of oil or natural gas goes down and so the need to extract more from the ground is not needed. When there is enough natural gas and oil in storage and the price is too low there is not as much drilling that is done. People in the energy field get laid off when the prices are low because drilling companies are holding off on drilling until it is cost effective to start up again.

Most of the drilling that you see in Tyler Texas is actually natural gas drilling. Natural gas is the fastest growing energy commodity being used right now. It has quickly surpassed all other energy commodities because of its ease of storage and how cheap it is. Many companies in the past and even now have burned off natural gas when pumping oil and this is still being done in several Asian countries. The natural gas that is being burned off is potential billions of dollars in additional profit to these energy companies although East Texas has been profiting from natural gas for several decades. The local refining plant here in Tyler actually burns off energy from one of their stacks as of July 2009 which is counter productive and a little archaic in this day in age. We know how to store and transport natural gas and it could mean several hundred thousand dollars if not millions of dollars simply by capping it and storing it to sell to other companies.

Since natural gas is one of the primary energy fuels in East Texas and because the world is quickly utilizing this fuel as the fuel of choice for things like electricity generation power plants we see a bright future a head for the Tyler and East Texas area. Historically when the stock market’s drop in price things like US currency and energy commodities go up in price. Energy and currency many times acts as a hedge against recessionary behaviors in the US economy. I have talked to some hair brained loonies in Tyler who have suggested investing in oil and natural gas drilling companies because of this. I strongly suggest staying away from investing in small cap stocks held by small time energy drilling companies. Oil and natural gas drilling is extremely speculative and trying to sell your small cap stock for a profit can be quite difficult when it goes up because there is not enough volume from other people wanting to buy.

A smarter way to invest in the global trend and Tyler strong hold in natural gas is to buy what is known as an ETF from a stock or commodities broker in Tyler. There are ETF’s for stock indexes, energy commodities, Gold, Silver, and many other popular items. There is no diamond ETF because diamonds have no commodity index that they are traded on. Diamonds are basically run by a monopoly company that sets their prices without interference from any type of index or market. We recommend avoiding any type of scheme related to buying diamonds or diamond stock in a small cap company. An ETF is like a mutual fund because it is a composite of several different companies in a related field but without the fees you would pay to buy a mutual fund. By saving money in fees an ETF diversifies your holdings in your preferred commodity as well as save you money you would pay a brokerage in fees to continually invest in a mutual fund. An ETF is a little more risky than investing in a mutual fund but a lot less risky than putting all your money in only one stock or commodity. Instead of investing in a small cap oil or natural gas drilling company in Tyler Texas we recommend buying an ETF. You will save yourself a lot of heartache and will likely still have something to show for your investing efforts several years down the road.

Next time you are driving down an East Texas road and see a drilling pump and get the desire of wanting to invest in drilling yourself just consider looking into ETF’s to satisfy such a risky endeavor and still participate in the East Texas and global trend towards natural gas energy. There is actually a 90% correlation with the price of natural gas and electricity in East Texas and Tyler because most of our electricity power is generated using natural gas. When picking a natural gas power company for your home you only have one choice which is Centerpoint Energy. When picking an electricity power company in Tyler and East Texas you have up to 50 different choices in electricity service companies. All of these Tyler electricity companies get their energy off of the ERCOT grid which also goes by the name Electric Reliability Council of Texas electric grid. This Texas grid operator approves a bidding system called the balancing energy market that lets power wholesalers, marketers, and generation companies to bid their power price on this enclosed Texas electric grid.

Most of the power generation companies are producing their electricity through natural gas or coal fired power plants. These generation companies then sell this electricity power on the ERCOT balancing energy market. Retail electric companies in Tyler can then buy natural gas commodities in a paper transaction in order to create a fixed retail electricity price they can sell to the Tyler or East Texas energy consumer. Whenever you buy a fixed electricity price you are actually buying a variable electricity rate that was hedged through a paper transaction over a natural gas commodities exchange. The Tyler electricity companies selling retail electric service usually has an agreement with a company who specializes in hedging energy in order to be resold as a fixed electricity rate. This allows a Texas electricity provider and consumer to avoid any risk or exposure when power prices go up.

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Best Internet Providers in Tyler Texas

December 10th, 2009

When trying to determine which internet provider is the best when it comes to price and speed it can be a little hard. You are dealing with very location specific speed issues and some neighborhoods will be worse than others. You basically have two choices, Cable internet, or DSL internet. There is now EVDO wireless internet cards but these have limitations when it comes to bandwidth so for the most part you want to stick with DSL or cable.

Your cable internet choice is Suddenlink internet which back in the early 90’s was called Tyler.net or Tyler internet. Cox bought them which later became Suddenlink. We have seen several customer reviews claiming that Suddenlink cable internet just isn’t very fast. Here are a couple positive and negative reviews to give you some idea what people are saying:

John says:

December 12, 2007 at 12:30 pm

I use Suddenlink here in Tyler, TX, for my broadband provider, and I have never been disappointed. It is up 99.9% of the time, and the speeds are awesome. I am paying for 4Mbps, and on several Internet-based speed tests, I am always at about 8Mbps (those are download speeds, of course). Add to that the convenience of billing included with my cable statement, and Suddenlink broadband is the way to go!

Lollerskates says:

April 12, 2008 at 11:23 pm

Pretty sweet John. I paid for 8 mb dl speeds and get 4 to 5 on average! Instant and random disconnects, lag on online games. I recently cut my dl speed to 1 mb dl. I can still play video games with the same lag for a cheaper price! You rock severedlink!

For the video gamers out there you may not want to go with cable internet as you are basically sharing internet speeds with your neighbors. That coaxial cable that you see on the power lines outside runs to every house and the bandwidth is shared by everyone. When that bandwidth gets used at the same time by multiple neighbors that are all subscribed to suddenlink cable internet you may see a degredation in your internet speed. If it happens once it will probably be a regular occurence as people are creatures of habit. If you use the internet in the evening there is a good chance that everyone else in your neighborhood does too. This isn’t a good thing for those relying on cable internet.

DSL internet is provided by AT&T for the most part in Tyler Texas and offers you a dedicated line rather than something shared with your neighbors. You will not have to worry about sporadic slow internet speeds but will get exactly what you pay for every time. The times that cable internet beats DSL is when you are in a neighborhood where most of your neighbors are not subscribers to high speed internet but you are. This type of neighborhood is ideal because you will pay a little less with Suddenlink cable internet and will still have the fast speeds. Unfortunately there aren’t many neighborhoods like this anymore.

Our preferred choice is AT&T DSL high speed broadband internet. You will get a guaranteed internet speed and will not have to compete with your Tyler neighbors on when to use the internet for optimal speeds. This is by no means a hard and fast rule but just a little intelligent understanding of how the whole internet service thing works in Tyler Texas. Feel free to comment below if you agree or disagree.

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No Deposit Electricity Companies in Tyler Texas

December 3rd, 2009

Speak to an Electricity Bid Energy Consultant in Tyler Texas to Find a Low Deposit Option For Electric Service

Electricity Bid can be reached at 1-800-971-4020

When relocating into a new place in Tyler Texas especially if you are a young person you may get hit with several deposit requests. Anything from your apartment, water utilities, to electric service will be essential services that will want some type of deposit. If you have good credit you may not be asked for a deposit at all but for young people, those with no credit history, and people with bad credit you will definitely be asked for a deposit. The larger deposits are usually with your electricity service company and your landlord. The electric company will want something in the range of $400 and the apartment, home, or duplex rental will usually need anywhere from 1 to 3 months rent up front.

Finding a Tyler Texas electricity provider that will ask you for zero deposit requires that your credit score be in the neighborhood of 700 and no late payments with any companies or utilities past 30 days. If you have maxed out any credit cards lately this will drop your credit score by as much as 50 points. If you have paid off a collections agency lately you may find that your credit score has dropped another 100 points. If you have had a 700 credit score in the past you may be surprised to find that your score can drop very quickly for some strange reasons. One of the strangest ways your credit score can go down is by paying off your credit card balance in full. It is best to leave a small balance on all of your credit cards to maintain a good credit score. This may sound strange but to credit scoring companies it simply shows them that you can afford to have multiple credit lines you can pay off.

So how do you avoid that $400 deposit a Texas electric company may be asking you for? There used to be more then a few electricity providers in Texas that offered a prepaid electricity service. These pay as you go electric service companies in Tyler seem to come and go. Right now there are only a couple and their names are DPI Electric and Freedom Power. Some of the other prepay electric companies in Tyler that used to be around have gone out of business because of bad execution and PUCT and ERCOT penalties associated with disconnecting non paying customers before giving proper notice.

Pre pay electricity providers have to abide by strict PUCT rules that require them to send out post cards or letters giving proper notice that a non paying customer will be disconnected if they do not pay their bill. In the case of prepaid electricity service your bill is not for electricity already used but for future electric service you will use. So how does a prepaid electric company determine what you will pay? Pay as you go electric service companies in Tyler TX will estimate your usage by using the historical usage from the previous tenant at your address. So if you are a conservative electric service customer that tries to not use that much energy you may still have to pay a $300 a month electricity bill. The reason you have to pay more than what you use is because they are billing you for someones elses electric usage from the previous year.

This old usage billing is the only cost effective way for prepaid electric providers to operate in Texas. To avoid additional profit loss a pay as you go energy service provider will inflate their electric rate dramatically. If the going cheap electricity rate is 10 cents per kWh with TXU or Reliant you can bet that a prepaid electricity company will want something more in the neighborhood of 17 cents per kWh. These higher electric rates will cause you to come up with about the same or more in electricity service prepay charges as you would have originally paid as a deposit to a traditional electric company.

Our recommendation is to avoid going with a pay as you go electric company in Tyler Texas. Since you will have to come up with about the same amount of money to pay a prepay company as would to pay your initial deposit it makes more sense to come up with that deposit amount. For $400 or less that you will get back at the end of your electric service term you will be able to sign up with a traditional electricity company like TXU, Just Energy, Bounce Energy, Reliant, Ambit or someone else and will be able to be on a cheap rate based on your actual usage. Sure you may have to pay a $400 deposit but your first months electricity bill may only be $100. If you add your first months electric bill to the deposit amount you get $500. Now imagine you are charged by a prepaid Tyler Texas electricity company, you will likely be charged $300 – $500 for your first month. You will never get this money back as this is not a deposit but the actual cost of your electricity usage.

As you can see although you may put off having to pay a large dollar amount for a month you will end up having to pay close to the same amount in actual electric usage charges. We do not believe a Tyler TX prepaid electric company that offers a rate with no deposit is really a good situation for a Tyler TX resident. If you are low income than you will have a really big problem when you get your first months electricity bill. The pay as you go electric companies will usually hook you in to an electricity rate by offering you an option to get started with only $99. The problem is they haven’t charged you for the first month but only a small portion of your total bill for the first month. A few weeks later they may ask you for $300 more dollars to continue to keep your Tyler TX electricity service on.

So be sure to compare traditional electricity companies in Tyler TX rather than pay as you go providers. You will save a lot of money by not falling for the hook of “$99 to get started” pitch line. These prepaid electricity companies tend to go out of business as well which means you will end up having to shop for a new electric company anyway. If you have questions about any of this we recommend you speak with someone from locally owned Electricity Bid at 1-800-971-4020. One of their Tyler TX energy consultants will be able to assist you in shopping for a cheap electric company with a low deposit option.

To read about this topic from a Mexican American perspective visit our no deposit Tyler Texas electricity and utilities (no hay electricidad depósito Tyler Texas y los servicios públicos) article written by a local Mexican American living in Tyler TX.

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Tyler Texas Energy Service

November 10th, 2009

When relocating or moving to a new house or area in Tyler Texas you come up with the problem of needing to sign up again for utility services like water, natural gas, and electricity. Some homes do not have a natural gas hook up and for you that may be a positive or minus. Generally a home owner will save a little money by having a home that uses both natural gas and electricity. There is only one natural gas company in Tyler Texas and their company name is Centerpoint Energy. They have a very handy online bill oay feature that will automatically deduct your monthly payment from your credit card, check card, or checking account. You can call Centerpoint Energy at their local Tyler phone number: (903) 939-8648

If you do not have natural gas service at your Tyler home than you will still need your electricity turned on. Most people will tell you to call TXU Energy but over the last year they have been much higher in price than several other Tyler TX electricity providers. Although TXU Energy was the monopoly electricity utility for decades in the Smith County area of Texas you now have a choice among over 30 different Texas electricity providers. Most electricity companies in Texas operate in all deregulated cities in Texas. Since Tyler Texas is deregulated it means you can pick and choose among all the active and registered electric companies in Texas.

Many Energy Providers in Texas Will Want a Deposit To Turn on Electric Service

Right now because of the credit market how it is if you do not have good credit you may be asked anywhere from $200 – $800 as a deposit. If you have already put down a deposit for water, gas, and your apartment you may find this a bit expensive. Unfortunately there is really no way around the deposit if you have no credit or your credit is bad. I recommend trying to sign up with several providers until one accepts you at little or no deposit. If you get accepted for a deposit amount in the range of $200 consider that a good thing.

Electricity Bid, A Comparison of Electricity Companies and Rates

You can reach Electricity Bid at 1-800-971-4020

You can compare electricity rates in Tyler Texas by visiting a website that specializes in comparing electricity companies in the Tyler Texas area. We recommend going to Electricity Bid.com and checking out the residential electricity comparison chart on that site. You may also call Electricity Bid and an energy consultant can answer your questions about an electricity company you may be interested in.

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