Goodbye DVDs Hello Streaming

When Lindsey Balser and her husband bought their house in 2019, they didn’t realize that the move here from Florida, where technology and the internet is everywhere, would really not exist in their new location.

“We thought, ʻWe can figure something out’,” Lindsey said. “It’s the perfect house.”

As it turns out, “We had nothing really before New Hampshire Broadband. We tried to basically use the cell towers and work from a hot spot using our cell phones,” she said. “I used to joke to my husband and say, ʻCan we return the house?’.”

And then came the Facebook posts and word-of-mouth chatter – NH Broadband was coming to Sandwich. The anticipation was building as the pole serving Sandwich was just over the Moultonborough line and just feet away from their home. Lindsey went online and plugged in their address to check to see if NH Broadband service was available.

“It was our turn,” she laughed. “It was like Christmas.”

Now, after some 15 months of enjoying NH Broadband service, the Balser home is absolutely back to being “the perfect house.”

In addition to being the perfect house it wears the distinction of being the first house in Moultonborough to have the internet service. Like the Balsers, Moultonborough residents won’t have to wait much longer as more zones will be opening throughout town in early 2025, and then it’s on to Tuftonboro.

For the Balsers, they can again stream and no longer have to fall back on their DVDs for entertainment.

“We can watch TV and use the internet all at the same time. And working from home got a lot easier. Things go much faster,” said Lindsey, who is an admin in client services.

“It’s very reliable. I haven’t had an outage,” she said, pointing out the other advantages of NH Broadband.

“I’m super impressed that we didn’t have to pay any crazy hook-up fee. Our bill is consistent. It remains the same as the promised price. And our electric wires run underground from the street and they ran our internet underground. I’m thrilled,” she said.