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MyChoice Internet Services
Why MyChoice, You Ask? Simple. We Are Illinois Internet Experts!
My Choice is the largest Internet provider in the Southern Illinois area and is growing. We expect to be adding several new towns during the next few months and are considering several more acquisitions to more quickly grow our coverage area.
We employ a local staff, pay local taxes, own our office building (through an affiliated company) and own much of our infrastructure. We try to do business with local companies and hope that also matters to you.
New MyChoice IT Services
VoIP – Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, and Broadband Phone is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network. MyChoice Voice over IP telephone service is available for a very affordable price.
Co-Location – MyChoice Colocation Services provide huge benefits to any business (and some individuals) that need to have their servers in a secure, climate controlled environment, where they can get access to large amounts of bandwidth and have the redundancy in place to make sure the servers have an “always on” service level.
Network Support – MyChoice can help your business with its networking. We can do everything from simple break-fix work to becoming your outsourced IT Department. Through our parent company, Access US (www.accessus.net) we have a deep set of skills that can be used on a “when needed” basis. Please let us know how we can help (sales@mychoice.net).
PC Repairs and Maintenance – Many customers have asked for help with their PCs. We can help remove viruses and malware, hardware and software upgrades, installation of applications, programming routers and wireless equipment and much more.
Hotspots – in some of our Illinois markets (including Marion, Jordan’s Fort, Freeman Spur, Carmi, Brownsville, Crainville, and soon more) we will soon be offering a large area “hotspot” for customers (within our coverage areas) that want to have service but don’t want to install equipment.
Television – we’ve been asked by many customers to supply them with some sort of television service. We’re evaluating our options and expect to have something to tell you in the next few months.
Why Choose MyChoice Wireless Internet?
What is the advantage of My Choice’s service compared to other options (i.e. DSL, Verizon Cell Cards,…)? Each service has its strengths and shortcomings. We stack up very well against each of them. In addition to this, we’re also a local business.
We employ a local staff, pay local taxes, own our office building (through an affiliated company) and own much of our infrastructure. We try to do business with local companies and hope that also matters to you. Now, as to each of the other ways you might get Internet service: DSL – this is available in some areas but Verizon or AT&T does not go into the areas outside of the downtown area.
In addition, you’re often required to have a local phone service which many would otherwise abandon for their cell phone. This makes the total cost of the service much higher. With My Choice you can “cut the cord” and reduce this often unnecessary expenses. DSL speeds are limited - you can only get ADSL which is asynchronous (that’s what the “A” stands for). You can download at one speed but uploading is much slower. DSL service degrades with distance and you can only get a “best available” service. They also don’t readily offer plans with static IP addresses and don’t offer public IP addresses.
Wireless Cell Cards – Whether from Verizon, Sprint or any of the other providers these cards are costly for anyone that does not do very limited things. An average download speed is about 150 kbps, about 1/10 the speed of some of our service packages. The cost most actually pay is FAR greater than a My Choice connection. For example, the monthly service for one customer (who is transferring his service to My Choice) costs $60 and he gets about 5 GB of throughput. After this they charge a MUCH HIGHER RATE. They also throttle back service levels to some popular websites and functions (i.e. Facebook, YouTube, file sharing sites,…). Plans with public IP addresses may not be available. Other Wireless Providers – There are other good options for wireless service.
My Choice is the largest provider in the southern Illinois area and is growing. We expect to be adding several new towns during the next few months and are considering several more acquisitions to more quickly grow our coverage area. Many wireless providers grow quickly into a small footprint but then lack the resources to grow and adapt their network to new technology. This means many of them are using older equipment and running on lower quality Internet connections. We know of more than one that runs on low cost residential DSL lines.