Posted: 5/22/2012 10:00:24 AM EDT
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My wife and I are going to be moving to the country (In NE Oklahoma). We will not be able to get Cable or DSL Internet, what are some of my options? I've heard good/bad on satellite. I've seen some wireless ISP's but don't know how well they work. The current owner of the house is using an AT&T Mi-Fi type device. Just wanted to see if I had missed any options or if anyone had experience with rural internet.
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Satellite blows just because of the ~1 second latency. That's unavoidable, speed of light, and all that.
WISP can go either way, depending on the WISP in question, and your location. An AT&T setup is fine, Verizon 4G would be even better. And if you find out where your local cell tower is, you can use a directional antenna for an extra-good signal. Bandwidth would be good, latency is higher than a WISP, but still far lower than satellite. |
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Satellite blows just because of the ~1 second latency. That's unavoidable, speed of light, and all that. WISP can go either way, depending on the WISP in question, and your location. An AT&T setup is fine, Verizon 4G would be even better. And if you find out where your local cell tower is, you can use a directional antenna for an extra-good signal. Bandwidth would be good, latency is higher than a WISP, but still far lower than satellite. Check out Millenicom. Sprint and Verizon data reseller. Going through AT&T or Verizon directly, you get stuck with their shitty usage caps. No streaming, Netflix, etc. I'd go with a WISP if there's one near you. Had one up in N. Tx before we moved to this black hole of Internet, and had a .75 Mb connexion, and sub-20ms pings. Not blazing fast, but workable. There's one near us here, but due to the fucking -20 foot valley our house is in, we can't hit their tower apparently. |
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I have a WISP and it's great. I'm about 2 miles from the hotspot. Similar positive experience here... WISP is less than a mile away and we have direct LOS since we are on a ridge. 5MB down / 2 MB up which is fair. We also keep an AT&T 3G and a Verizon 4G as secondary and tertiary connections. All three are connected to a Cradlepoint MBR1400 router that allows us to configure them in several ways: fail over, load balanced or preferred routes. It also lets you configure a data cap for each connection and can route traffic to an alternate if the cap is reached. |
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Quoted: Quoted: There's one near us here, but due to the fucking -20 foot valley our house is in, we can't hit their tower apparently. That's nothing that a 40' pole wouldn't solve.  My thoughts exactly. 40' telescoping and 300ft a steel cable and you're set. Hell free standing rohn towers take a day to build and make all kinds of fun to climb on  |