STURGEON BAY – Amanda and Joe Brooker moved from the Green Bay area to a farm outside Sturgeon Bay three years ago with the intent that she would run her business from home while he commuted to his job with the Green Bay School District.
Their options for high-speed broadband service, a crucial element of making that plan work, proved to be, in a word, “horrible,” said Amanda Brooker, who owns Long Rifle Soap Co.
Their monthly data allocation with HughesNet, a satellite internet service, would last a week, leaving them with a slow connection for the rest of the month. Watch Netflix and chill? Entirely out of the question.