I'm moving my family to Hudson, Wisconsin at the end of the month. Hudson is very close, only across the river from Minnesota, but it puts us in a better place for visiting family and offers some room to play.
Here's the interesting piece - the entire Hudson township doesn't have cable modem or DSL available. This nearly killed the deal. What kind of place near a major metropolitan area doesn't have broadband? I just found a new wireless service called Nomad that offers DSL speeds with the installation of an antenna on the house. It sounds like it's RF-based giving them a range of 11 miles from the central tower. Several of the neighbors have it installed.
I'm curious to see how this service works. I checked on satellite, but (1) bad weather can interfere with the signal and (2) latency times interfere with VPN and XBoxLive operation. I'm going to try using Vonage over the service as well. I'm interested in seeing how this plays out.