ProDarwin said:*Just kidding, there is a near-zero chance I would buy a house where high speed internet isn't available.
Yep. There is ZERO chance I would buy a house with no high-speed internet. That would mean not only am I far outside of the city, now I have to go in 5 days per week instead of 2-3.
Even slower cable internet had enough latency to cause problems with downloading/uploading my stuff to P4. I have 300mbs down at the moment, I'm considering the 1gb connection.
The kosher route is the one linked before to the 4G router.
The shady route is a yagi/cantenna setup. Drive around the neighborhood and find someone with open wifi and point your antenna there.
I have a yagi at camp because I'm too far from the source to get decent connection.
z31maniac said:
Even slower cable internet had enough latency to cause problems with downloading/uploading my stuff to P4.
Are you sure thats latency? Thats sounds like bandwidth.
On a cable connection there should be zero difference in latency between a 10meg connection and a 1 gig connection.
That said, with net neutrality now repealed, the ISP could intentionally delay certain traffic to create latency unless you pay to get out of it.
I'd look for something like this in your area.
Nota canoe
http://www.coho.net/high_speed_wireless_isp.php
put up a tower if needed which you could co-op with other users or the host.
In reply to bentwrench :
No WISPs in the area. At first I was surprised by that but then saw how it's used and there's too much terrain change in the area.
We should be ok with Atlantic broadband. The negative reviews I've found in the last 6 months have been hour long hold times for the US based customer service, related to people not understanding what an "introductory rate" means. Right now I'm paying Comcast $153/month for 200/20MB and a land line, then $40 worth of streaming apps. Yes it would be cheaper to have cable, but I don't have commercials this way. Atlantic broadband is offering 1 year of 1000/50MB for $79+$11 mandatory device rental, which puts my total output at $135/month.
Because I would ask, $79.99 for months 1-12, $99 for months 13-24, $119 for 25-36, then standard rate, which is not listed in the terms and conditions after month 37.
just because I have the screen shot I'll post it. The red dot house is their "closest customer" with service, the circled house is the one we made an offer on. "Town" is down and left, but there's also a big truck stop about a mile "north", so odds are the line passes right by the house already just needs to go from the pole to the house. I'm still waiting on a hard yes or no, but I'm optimistic.
The average age on the street looks 75 from what we've seen, so I can understand them not having signed up or even known it was available instead of the Verizon dsl.
The 4G modems do sound great. As a backup, or for someone who doesn't play video games, or have multiple people streaming at the same time. I would buy one for a cabin or RV, or even to keep in a race car trailer, but couldn't use it for a primary. Data rates and caps just aren't compatible with gaming or heavy streaming. 50-100GB sounds like a lot, until you see a 77GB grand theft auto download or a 111GB Ark survival evolved install or a 35GB *patch* for Rd Dead 2. $10/GB overage fees and 256kbs throttles sadly killed the idea for my situation.
It's not even like I'm downloading movies and TV shows anymore, there's just 2 Xboxes, a switch, 4 phones, 4 tablets, 2 laptops, and a desktop between the 4 of us, and the potential for a lot of them to be used simultaneously.
Having dug into this so much the past few days, while it's obvious there's still a LOT of work to be done, it's good to see broadband really reaching out. I know even 10 years ago the thought of cell phone service or even dsl internet in this particular area was a joke, now there's fiber backed cable covering most of it.
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