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Internet options other than cable

LilyPond

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I may be moving to an area that has no cable available and I was wondering about other options to connect to the internet? Because I work from home, my data usage can exceed 100GB/month.

Is Satellite the only option? I've never had satellite, are there folks out there who use it and can share their experiences? I have been looking at the 'Exede' website, curious if their connection speed is as good and reliable as they claim?

I'd love to learn more about weather and how it impacts satellite connectivity, and any other useful tidbits would be great.

If there is a non-satellite option I'd love to learn more about that, too!

Thanks!! :)
 
You might check with the phone company about DSL. Not as fast as cable, faster than satellite. If available in the area.
 
DSL or something like FIOS may be an option. Try calling the company that provides telephone service to the home. I would think that satellite would be the option of last resort.
 
Also you can get wireless via LTE modem.

Order of benefit.

Cable
Phone Co DSL
LTE / Sat

For the last two look at max traffic. Ping times are fairly unimportant for work. Just gaming.
 
Thank you all so much for the DSL suggestions, I'll have to verify on Monday but based upon the internet search option of the local telephone company for a specific address, they don't even offer telephone service. :(
 
You might ask your realtor or new neighbors. Or Google "Internet Service Podunk".

May we ask where this non-digital Shangri-La is?

I've heard that satellite is not as terrible as it once was, and that you can get 10/1 Mbps service for $40/month (but that only includes 10Gb prime-time data).
 
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The realtor wasn't much help, I might go knock on a few doors the next time I'm looking at property which is in southern Arizona, south of the Casa Grande, AZ area. I was researching 'Exede' Satellite service, they offer 12mbps download with a possible 'boost' option to up to 25mbps. The cost of this plus their 150 GB data plan is about $100+ a month. I'd love to know if there is anyone out there who has tried Exede and what they think. Maybe I should see if they'd give me a 30-day trial and camp out with the dish on my car for a few weeks!! lol :D

The LTE option might be interesting, I found this link: https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/modems/4g-lte/x16

Today in my current home I have Cox internet with 50mbps max but ... anytime I've checked my speed I've usually seen about 16mbps during the week and just checking it now it's about 26mbps, according to Cox.

Thanks! I love all the suggestions for options to look into!!
 
LilyPond said:
...based upon the internet search option of the local telephone company for a specific address, they don't even offer telephone service.
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You must be really off the grid... how's the outhouse coming along? ;)

If there's a cell tower in range, you could opt for a mega-data plan.

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I'll ask my BIL what he uses tomorrow, he lives in Stanfield.


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I've been on ViaSat's Exede since Aug 2013 -- having had HughesNet for several years before then. We are on a 'Recovery Act' plan that is no longer available but continues to offer us locked in rates for three choices of service level.

I work from home and use our full 60GB each month in addition to several nights of "Late Night Free Zone" for system updates. I am tempted to switch to the Freedom Plan (150GB/month) which was recently offered to our zip code. More data sounds great ... but I'd lose the Late Night Free Zone (5 hours of unmetered data every night), the guaranteed rate cap and free equipment lease of my current plan.

I've been very pleased with Exede. The service is rock solid (~two brief outages in 3 years?); my throughput has been stable (translation: I haven't noticed congestion on my beam as some in central US often mention); my employer's VPN worked -- even for multimedia applications; etc.

Success with Exede seems to be largely based on your beam. Some are slowed due to congestion/overcrowding and/or aging equipment (both consumer side and sat). I've found great techie folks to discuss specifics by location over at DSLForums and Exede/WildBlue's own community forums. (Don't be thrown off by the references to the old 'WildBlue' name -- these good folks know and understand the differences between Exede and Wildblue.)
 
LilyPond -

You might also want to google microwave, radio, fixed wireless, point-to-point or similar.

WydeBeam is one such provider for Arizona serving the greater Phoenix region. Or perhaps Az Airnet, BlueSpan, AireBeam, Desert iNet, ... ?

I have several friends using microwave -- and they rave over it compared to Satellite. Faster speed options, no monthly bandwidth caps, and lower monthly rates. Gee, if only I lived a few miles east ... or north ... of my present location. Sigh.

Good luck!
 
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Talent312 said:
You must be really off the grid... how's the outhouse coming along? ;)

If there's a cell tower in range, you could opt for a mega-data plan.

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I found that a small'ish cellular data plan with rollover is a great backup plan to my Satellite service. For those rare moments when the Satellite is wonky or I've hit my data cap a bit early ... tethering my laptop through my cellphone has been handy!

And funny you should mention the outhouse. Given the west region's water shortages, and my own well's very real problems, I've been giving serious thought to adding a composting toilet outhouse on the property! I'm thinking that should save water in a practical manner?
 
I am using exede for my internet after finding out when i moved last January that nobody provides internet to my location. I pay roughly 126 a month for 12 gb liberty plus plan, which gives me 12 gb a month at 25, then unlimited with much slower connection speeds . I generally have no problems with speed until the end of my billing period, when I have surpassed the 12 gb. I try to do my downloads at night after I have exceded the monthly cap.
 
No help here, just an observation/opinion. If I worked online, and required 100Gb/month to do it, I think that a priority on moving my location would be availability and quality of internet connection. Just my $.02.

Jim
 
Passepartout said:
No help here, just an observation/opinion. If I worked online, and required 100Gb/month to do it, I think that a priority on moving my location would be availability and quality of internet connection. Just my $.02.

Jim
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Also consideration of Internet type. If working on apis, Web based applications, database calls. All will be slowed by sat distances.
 
Talent312 said:
You must be really off the grid... how's the outhouse coming along? ;)

If there's a cell tower in range, you could opt for a mega-data plan.

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Haha! An outhouse would be needed in the short term, I would need to install septic. :D

I have Cricket cell service, they were recently absorbed by AT&T so cell coverage is good. I'd have 4G service, probably no LTE at this time.
 
rhonda said:
I've been on ViaSat's Exede since Aug 2013 -- having had HughesNet for several years before then. We are on a 'Recovery Act' plan that is no longer available but continues to offer us locked in rates for three choices of service level.

I work from home and use our full 60GB each month in addition to several nights of "Late Night Free Zone" for system updates. I am tempted to switch to the Freedom Plan (150GB/month) which was recently offered to our zip code. More data sounds great ... but I'd lose the Late Night Free Zone (5 hours of unmetered data every night), the guaranteed rate cap and free equipment lease of my current plan.

I've been very pleased with Exede. The service is rock solid (~two brief outages in 3 years?); my throughput has been stable (translation: I haven't noticed congestion on my beam as some in central US often mention); my employer's VPN worked -- even for multimedia applications; etc.

Success with Exede seems to be largely based on your beam. Some are slowed due to congestion/overcrowding and/or aging equipment (both consumer side and sat). I've found great techie folks to discuss specifics by location over at DSLForums and Exede/WildBlue's own community forums. (Don't be thrown off by the references to the old 'WildBlue' name -- these good folks know and understand the differences between Exede and Wildblue.)
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Thank you Rhonda for sharing your experiences as an Exede customer and all of the other info you posted!! I am going to dive into the links you shared and take my time researching this. :whoopie:
 
We used to have satellite (Hughesnet) as there was no cable available. We didn't like it. It went out a lot- especially in bad weather- just as your DirecTV would.

We eventually opted for DSL. We liked the fact that if electricity went out we still had internet (we have a whole house generator for the power so we could still use our computers). DSL was faster and more reliable than satellite.

Someone I know said she had cable but it went out a lot and she switched to DSL.

But our son says cable is much faster than DSL.
 
SmithOp said:
I'll ask my BIL what he uses tomorrow, he lives in Stanfield.


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Talking to myself :)

Check out Airebeam out of Arizona City, no data caps.

https://www.airebeam.com/

If you sign up tell them you were referred by Joe Rodriguez.


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