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I live in a rural area. I am about 15 miles from a village with a grocery store (the only retail store, no clothes/other supplies, those are 30 miles away, one way), population somewhere around 200....
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there is some point to point in some places you will really need to talk to your new neighbors to see what works, also see if there are any small businesses near you and see what they use.
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I have a friend who lives in a rural location and pays $350 a month for a T1 line.
The fact of the matter is simple: It costs a LOT of money to run cable way out to the middle of nowhere....
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have you tried dslreports.com
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Mercury Wireless
https://www.mercurywireless.com/
High speed Internet in rural areas
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Fortunately, my sister and her family lives about 2 miles away and have the same service provider I priced in the OP. I'm just waiting for a speedtest.net from her; unfortunately, she's the opposite...
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Yeah, the provider I'm looking at is apparently too local to be on there. :mad:
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No prob!
Yeah, I play games online as well. My internet speed is currently 15 to 20 mbps (i.e., I can download games at 2 Megabytes to 3 Megabytes per sec). I live in a suburban area. I would...
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Hi SD'ers, we're thinking about moving to a rural area that doesn't have cable/DSL access. So I've been researching our options, and they seem severely limited. Is 4g coverage and satellite Internet...
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I live in a rural area with DSL and the maximum available speed is 3mbit; we rarely even get that. We pay $60/mth just for the internet and then another $30 for the phone line it runs on.
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i second the mention of millenicom. seem to have great customer satisfaction.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/millenicom
http://www.dslreports.com/comments/3165
http://www.millenicom.com/
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Who is your possible provider?
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I do not live in a rural area, but hughesnet supposedly can provide up to 15/2 Mbps via satellite for $100 a month (which is not terrible if you actually get 15/2). How good it is I have no idea.
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What worries me is that I see no terms of service public on their website.
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Bonus of 2am-8am. What are they on crack.
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This is silly, but apparently Mercury Wireless is a WISP not satellite Internet. I had no idea such a thing existed, but apparently as long as they don't oversell the access points, latency is very...
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Is it 4 MegaBYTES or 4 MegaBITS download? 4 Mb = only 500 kbps but 4 MB = ...4 MB/s (4096 KB/s). If megabits, then yeah it is a little slow. I've heard of people contacting cable companies about...
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I'm assuming it's megabits :(
http://i.imgur.com/4yeAjp5.png
there's a screenie from their website. I could deal with 500 kb/s download speeds especially if they aren't being deceitful with...
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They seem to have some limit on the total amount downloaded a month and that 2-8 AM thing I think is saying you can download another 20 GB of data off hours during that timeframe. 20-40 GBs a month...
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We live in a very rural area and just recently got DSL, but before we got that we used our Verizon cell phone as a hotspot for our home computer. I had to get a wireless router and ran our desktop...
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We have had a local WISP provider for about 3 years now. Small antenna is mounted on the roof. Latency does range from 40-80ms. No data caps or throttling. Couldn't be happier.
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Well, we settled on a house inside the city (hooray DSL!), but the house in the rural area we were considering is owned by my parents so I'm sure I can pass on all this useful info. Thanks guys!
