[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Rural Internet Options? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/10/2014 7:19:20 AM EDT
Looking at a couple acres out in the country, ATT says no to dsl or uverse. Cable company says it is not in the area. How fast is 4g LTE? Is there anyone that offers unlimited. I'm used to downloading 100 GB a month, and streaming everything  Any other options?
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Where are you OP?
I am in SW Ok and living pretty rural. We don't even have land line phone service. I tried Wildblue for awhile and it worked but I got rid of it when another option came up. A local company offers wireless internet. I don't know how it works, I have a small square antennae on my house which runs into the house to my modem. It averages between 1.5 mbps on the low end and 3-4 mbps on the high end. |
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Where are you OP? I am in SW Ok and living pretty rural. We don't even have land line phone service. I tried Wildblue for awhile and it worked but I got rid of it when another option came up. A local company offers wireless internet. I don't know how it works, I have a small square antennae on my house which runs into the house to my modem. It averages between 1.5 mbps on the low end and 3-4 mbps on the high end. This. Do whatever you can to find a WISP. I have Skybeam, and while their reviews online are god awful, I've been thrilled with their service. I pay $59/month for 15/5 Mbps and routinely am hitting 18 Mbps on downloads. Their is a "soft cap" for downloads at 250 gigs, but I've never hit it and I download a LOT of GB's a month. |
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This. Do whatever you can to find a WISP. I have Skybeam, and while their reviews online are god awful, I've been thrilled with their service. I pay $59/month for 15/5 Mbps and routinely am hitting 18 Mbps on downloads. Their is a "soft cap" for downloads at 250 gigs, but I've never hit it and I download a LOT of GB's a month. Quoted:
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Where are you OP? I am in SW Ok and living pretty rural. We don't even have land line phone service. I tried Wildblue for awhile and it worked but I got rid of it when another option came up. A local company offers wireless internet. I don't know how it works, I have a small square antennae on my house which runs into the house to my modem. It averages between 1.5 mbps on the low end and 3-4 mbps on the high end. This. Do whatever you can to find a WISP. I have Skybeam, and while their reviews online are god awful, I've been thrilled with their service. I pay $59/month for 15/5 Mbps and routinely am hitting 18 Mbps on downloads. Their is a "soft cap" for downloads at 250 gigs, but I've never hit it and I download a LOT of GB's a month. I have this as well, but the guy that runs it is always having outages, but he gets his service through Time Warner. So I think he just isn't paying his bill on time. |
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Quoted: I live in a rural area with no high speed internet options. Satellite sucks regardless of what anyone tells you. I run my whole house off a 4g/LTE hotspot. I dont watch online movies because it would eat up my data but normal internet stuff is good to go. |
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Looking at a couple acres out in the country, ATT says no to dsl or uverse. Cable company says it is not in the area. How fast is 4g LTE? Is there anyone that offers unlimited. I'm used to downloading 100 GB a month, and streaming everything Any other options?Suicide. 
Seriously. Excede from WildBlue is your best bet for speed satellite wise. You are still limited to 15 Gig a month though. 4g LTE is much faster than satellite, but I don't know pricing when you get to 15-20 Gig a month plans. Edit, I am now on wireless. A local company finally put an antenna on the local cell tower. Unlimited download, but not the fastest thing in the world. |
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Quoted: I live in a rural area with no high speed internet options. Satellite sucks regardless of what anyone tells you. I run my whole house off a 4g/LTE hotspot. I dont watch online movies because it would eat up my data but normal internet stuff is good to go. This is truth! If there was ANYTHING else out here I'd have it. It would be cheaper too.
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We have been using the verizon jet pack. It works great but the usage limits is hard on us. I just found out last week that I can get fiber to my house for free as long as I am under 4000 feet from the closest ped. They have been out here the last two days burying fiber cable. My understanding is uncle sugar paid to have fiber run across the lovely state of montana for all rural folks to be able to hook to. Something to do with rural people being able to have service just the same as fsa being able to have a cell phone for job inquiries. 
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Viasat Exede from Wildblue. Unlimited download between Midnight and 5:00am. You just have to stay up late to stream movies.
I don't go over 10GB a month except for the unlimited downloads during the free time. $60.00 or so a month. I had cable for 10 years until moving out to the middle of nowhere. The is no DSL or cable within 5 miles of my house. There might be a wireless service but it allows less data than what I currently have. Kind of hard for anyone to actually give you options when you don't post your location. |
| Can you find a business internet supplier in your area? Wife's employers just had fiber run to their facility to provide increased demand due to a data center expansion. It cost a lot less than I would have thought they would be charged for it. Now they've got a 250Mbps connection in place of the 25Mbps connection they had through the cable company's "business package" they previously were using. |
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I'm using a 3G Verizon Wireless card. I have a router that will let you hook up the card to it and service your home, just like a DSL router.
I had Dialup and satellite while growing up, things may be different now but by far your best bet will be to use a cell phone internet connection. Cradlepoint mbr1000. Luckily my plan and this card dates way back to 2008, I can still get unlimited data. Let's hope it doesn't crap out anytime soon. It's been very good to me. 
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I live in a rural area with no high speed internet options. Satellite sucks regardless of what anyone tells you. I run my whole house off a 4g/LTE hotspot. I dont watch online movies because it would eat up my data but normal internet stuff is good to go. This ^^^^. Same here. I use Millenicom. They sell bulk Verizon 4G/LTE of 20GB for $90 per month. My speeds are usually 10+ Mbps down and 10+ Mbps up and pings in the 50 ms range. That's on a connection that fluctuates between 2-3 bars on the hotspot. Route your traffic through a router running DD-WRT so you can monitor your daily and monthly usage. Several times I've had enough data left on the last weekend of the month to stream an HD movie or two (Amazon or Xbox Movies), without issue. For sure, your days of 100+ gigs per month of surfing will be long over. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Satellite. You won't be downloading 100GB or streaming anymore. Oh yeah, you can. Exede has a free time from 12:00 to 5:00 am. I've got over 30 gigs in one night before and many, many 20 gig nights. You just have to use a download manager or scheduler if you can't be up then. I also have a Youtube downloader plugin on Firefox. |
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Thank you! This found one in the area I'm looking at. Seems like the property is well within range. Anyone have experience with unwiredbroadband? |
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250GB plan for $99.99 a month, but I'm just outside the area, as always. Any area it is near has cable anyway. It might get to my area within a few years.
http://mispot.net/service/service-plans/ |
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^^^^^^^^^^This X87^^^^^^^^^^^^ Screw AT&T and Verizon with data limits and outrageous prices. Screw satellite internet that has horrible ping times and high prices OP I was in the same boat about 2yrs ago. Found a wireless internet service provider and they are awesome. I have 3 Mb/s internet with no data limits for $40 a month. If you want speed you can get the business plan at $100 month and 25 Mb/s. |
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Thank you! This found one in the area I'm looking at. Seems like the property is well within range. Anyone have experience with unwiredbroadband? Quoted:
Thank you! This found one in the area I'm looking at. Seems like the property is well within range. Anyone have experience with unwiredbroadband? That's what we have. You won't notice any difference between it and a land line connection. I have no complaints with the company we use. There have only been maybe 2-3 times the internet went down for a couple of hours, but they will give you a call to let you know it will be down or if they are having issues. Ours is basically a satellite dish looking thing that points at the tower on the mountain, but a co worker just has one in his attic that picks up the signal. So, you need to be within direct sight of the signal or be within the signal range. Our house is actually connected to a repeater located at a relative's house, so if you don't quite have signal where you are they can extend it at your property as long as someone can get a signal. |
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250GB plan for $99.99 a month, but I'm just outside the area, as always. Any area it is near has cable anyway. It might get to my area within a few years. http://mispot.net/service/service-plans/ Quoted:
250GB plan for $99.99 a month, but I'm just outside the area, as always. Any area it is near has cable anyway. It might get to my area within a few years. http://mispot.net/service/service-plans/ miSpot is a 4G LTE high speed wireless broadband Internet service provider that was created to provide residents in select areas of Michigan... Did I miss where the OP said he lived (or is looking to buy) in Michigan? |
| I have no good options here in BFE except my T-mobile phone. Unlimited data, but it takes some creativity. The phone had a custom ROM and creating a hotspot is easy, but I mainly browse the net on the phone vs the laptop. You get used to it. I also use the Miracast function to mirror my screen to the tv, so Netflix and HBO GO are good to go. It's not perfect, but it works for me and I use a LOT of data every month. |
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Did I miss where the OP said he lived (or is looking to buy) in Michigan? Quoted:
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250GB plan for $99.99 a month, but I'm just outside the area, as always. Any area it is near has cable anyway. It might get to my area within a few years. http://mispot.net/service/service-plans/ miSpot is a 4G LTE high speed wireless broadband Internet service provider that was created to provide residents in select areas of Michigan... Did I miss where the OP said he lived (or is looking to buy) in Michigan? I mentioned I was outside the area for that service. myself. With all your psychic ability tell us where the OP is located. If you actually read the thread you will see that I mentioned to the OP, "Kind of hard for anyone to actually give you options when you don't post your location.". Read the entire thread next time, Einstein. |
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Screw AT&T and Verizon with data limits and outrageous prices. Screw satellite internet that has horrible ping times and high prices OP I was in the same boat about 2yrs ago. Found a wireless internet service provider and they are awesome. I have 3 Mb/s internet with no data limits for $40 a month. If you want speed you can get the business plan at $100 month and 25 Mb/s. Satellite is not all that much more expensive than what you are paying, 4 times faster download speed and many people live in areas where nothing else is available. |
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I mentioned I was outside the area for that service. myself. With all your psychic ability tell us where the OP is located. If you actually read the thread you will see that I mentioned to the OP, "Kind of hard for anyone to actually give you options when you don't post your location.". Read the entire thread next time, Einstein. Quoted:
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250GB plan for $99.99 a month, but I'm just outside the area, as always. Any area it is near has cable anyway. It might get to my area within a few years. http://mispot.net/service/service-plans/ miSpot is a 4G LTE high speed wireless broadband Internet service provider that was created to provide residents in select areas of Michigan... Did I miss where the OP said he lived (or is looking to buy) in Michigan? I mentioned I was outside the area for that service. myself. With all your psychic ability tell us where the OP is located. If you actually read the thread you will see that I mentioned to the OP, "Kind of hard for anyone to actually give you options when you don't post your location.". Read the entire thread next time, Einstein. You offered up a non-solution and I asked a simple question. Yet, you're the one that gets all butthurt? Try growing up. /ignore Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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You offered up a non-solution and I asked a simple question. Yet, you're the one that gets all butthurt? Try growing up. /ignore Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I gave him a solution in my very first response, which you would have known if you actually read the thread, Einstein. |
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Looking at a couple acres out in the country, ATT says no to dsl or uverse. Cable company says it is not in the area. How fast is 4g LTE? Is there anyone that offers unlimited. I'm used to downloading 100 GB a month, and streaming everything Any other options?No. In the suburbs I enjoyed unlimited use DSL or cable broadband at super fast speeds. In the country where we have lived the past year there is only two choices: satellite internet or using your cell phone as a mobile hot spot. Both basically suck. Satellite: Pros:
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If consuming a lot of data is important to you (Netflix, VOD, on-line gaming, etc.), and your only choices if you elect to move to a rural area are satellite broadband or your cell's WiFi, you will be seriously disappointed. My son got a game called Skyrim as a gift that he wanted to download, it was something like 12GB. I had to get up at 2 am to start downloading it, then back up at 7 am to stop it, so we wouldn't waste our prime time satellite data allotment (and no, data download scheduler programs don't work - trust me I tried). Due to how slow satellite internet is it took me 3-4 days of doing this to fully download it, and still had to use 2 GB of our monthly 10 GB primetime data to finish the download. Anyway, hope this helps. |
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What the crap are you doing that you download 100GB/month?  Most people are unaware of how much data they consume. 100 GB/mo would be low-end usage it you stream some Netflix/Hulu/Amazon, watch some VOD via your TV provider (which uses your home internet). I was watching these 10 minute home improvement videos on YouTube and after watching 6 of them it used almost 10 GB. And those weren't even HD. If all you do is e-mail and surf Arfcom, sure you might only use a few GB/month. But once you start streaming video, downloading software (just a video game can easily be 5-15GB now) you rapidly approach the 100 GB/mo usage level. |
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This. Do whatever you can to find a WISP. I have Skybeam, and while their reviews online are god awful, I've been thrilled with their service. I pay $59/month for 15/5 Mbps and routinely am hitting 18 Mbps on downloads. Their is a "soft cap" for downloads at 250 gigs, but I've never hit it and I download a LOT of GB's a month. Quoted:
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Where are you OP? I am in SW Ok and living pretty rural. We don't even have land line phone service. I tried Wildblue for awhile and it worked but I got rid of it when another option came up. A local company offers wireless internet. I don't know how it works, I have a small square antennae on my house which runs into the house to my modem. It averages between 1.5 mbps on the low end and 3-4 mbps on the high end. This. Do whatever you can to find a WISP. I have Skybeam, and while their reviews online are god awful, I've been thrilled with their service. I pay $59/month for 15/5 Mbps and routinely am hitting 18 Mbps on downloads. Their is a "soft cap" for downloads at 250 gigs, but I've never hit it and I download a LOT of GB's a month. I have the Skybeam as well and while it is not the best service , it works. I routinely get good speeds out of mine too. The worst problem I have had with them was equipment related issues, which were quickly addressed. 15/5 program for me, but I have seen as high as 56 mbps. |
| I was lucky enough to get a Verizon LTE hotspot before they discontinued the unlimited data plans for business accounts. I average about 10mbs downloads which is fine for Netflix/Amazon Prime video. If they ever drop that plan, I'll be SOL out here in the boonies. |
| I've had Wildblue and Hughes net. Both sucked but Hughes sucked and blew! Now on Viaero 4G, cell tower service, much better response and cheaper than the satellite coverage plus it still works when storms get close. Download limit is 100, can't download too many movies a week. |