Local internet provider says no more service after this month.It's a small local wireless service.Seems the owner of the tower he uses raised the rent and he can't afford it. I'm in west central ohio with no other providers I can find. There north and south of me,but don't cover my area.Spectrum passes in front of my driveway, but says at 250 ft off the road they can't hook me up. Has anyone had experience with hughsnet? They offer satellite internet,but if it's like some of the satellite tv companies the weather effects how they work.There's a sprint and att tower a couple miles from me,but I don't think they have local internet service.What do you guys use in the country?
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mudcreek183
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We have hughsnet it ok at best but a lot better then verizon which is off a cell signal if it rains hard you lose the signal, it's not cheap we pay $130 a month for 30 GB.
You say wireless, I assume you have cell phone capabilities.
Do you have a smart phone? If yes, use the personnel hotspot to connect.
I use this method for my day job.... ATT provider.
Contact Sprint or ATT, ask about a USB modem.
For my home computer, I've had a Verizion USB modem for quite some time.
HTH...cityboy
Do you have a smart phone? If yes, use the personnel hotspot to connect.
I use this method for my day job.... ATT provider.
Contact Sprint or ATT, ask about a USB modem.
For my home computer, I've had a Verizion USB modem for quite some time.
HTH...cityboy
Bob Harvey
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If you have good cell service, you should be able to get a 'Smart Hub' It is a dedicated cell # and gives you wifi. We pay $65 per mo. for 50 gigs. HTH
Texasmark1
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I had local, ground based till the trees blocked it off. Went with several Satellite, Hughes net, Exede, and Dish which are Viasat fed. Using Exede and Dish currently. Much more expensive than ground based but programming really fast, availability is almost 100% and 10Gs day and 10Gs night runs about $65 on each.
You say their is a high speed cable/telecom connection at road just too far to your house
Simple
Go get a little dog house and put it by the road
Run electric and a fiber optic cable from your house to the little dog house. Weld a nut on the subsoiler and tie the wires too it and pull the cable
Cable modem and twisted pair to fiber converter in dog house. Put another fiber to twisted pair converter in house
Tell the cable or phone company to hook up the doghouse. Plug into your fiber run
Done.
Good for a few thousand feet
If 500 or 600 feet just use twisted pair cat 5 or. 6
Simple
Go get a little dog house and put it by the road
Run electric and a fiber optic cable from your house to the little dog house. Weld a nut on the subsoiler and tie the wires too it and pull the cable
Cable modem and twisted pair to fiber converter in dog house. Put another fiber to twisted pair converter in house
Tell the cable or phone company to hook up the doghouse. Plug into your fiber run
Done.
Good for a few thousand feet
If 500 or 600 feet just use twisted pair cat 5 or. 6
James Howell
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Verizon wireless deep in the woods of NE Texas.
Verizon wireless deep in the woods of NE Texas.
johndeere720GA
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The first thing I would do would be to contact your county board and determine who has possession of the CATV franchise agreement for your area of the county. Obtain a copy and read it over, the cable co may be required to provide you service via that agreement. You can also request the board intercede with the cable company if you are not able to get the cable co to do it on your own. Charter didn't want to hook me up but after I mentioned I would have the county contact them they stepped up and got things done.
Good luck I know from experience it can be a pain sometimes.
Good luck I know from experience it can be a pain sometimes.
K Effective
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I'm 600 feet off the road here, as well. Comcast guy who came out said it was too far for normal installation, that I would need "Construction" to install the line, similar to what is as the road. He said last one he knew of was $12K.
Coworker used to work for comcast, he connected me with some of his friends, they agreed, depending on how far from local amplifier, signal may not be good enough for internet. Amplifier is about 700 feet, just across the road, hmmmm. I thought about burying some heavy coax (R6?) to the first pole and telling them to hook it up, we'll try it. I had not thought about running power out front with a fiber line or even CAT 5, then we could put Christmas lights out there, yay.
Coworker used to work for comcast, he connected me with some of his friends, they agreed, depending on how far from local amplifier, signal may not be good enough for internet. Amplifier is about 700 feet, just across the road, hmmmm. I thought about burying some heavy coax (R6?) to the first pole and telling them to hook it up, we'll try it. I had not thought about running power out front with a fiber line or even CAT 5, then we could put Christmas lights out there, yay.
James Howell
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Might be a little more expensive than other internet service providers, but worth the money to keep current on the news, weather, and drama every day on YT.
I had Hughsnet for several years and no problems. It was fast as what I have now. I would have no qualms about them if I needed their services. ATT- Direct had some sort of wireless service but not in all areas. I now have what used to be Time Warner now called Spectrum( name change to avoid govt suit over monopoly, same lousy service)Also maybe a cell service can help ypur like on your smart[phone
We've had HughesNet for several years. Just upgraded to the "Gen 5" service (had to since a tree took out the dish we had). It's been pretty good, except in extreme weather the connection gets spotty. The Gen 5 is much faster then the previous generation and the new sat. modem has built in wi-fi. 10 gig a month data is $50 a month.
K
The longer the run the weaker the signal and when you split it with TV's in the
house even weaker.
So split the services Internet and TV at the road - separate lines - Fiber for
internet and R6 for Cable TV.
Fiber is fine at 700 ft but you could have issues with the TV signal. It might
work for all your TV's, just one or none --- splitters will further weaken
the signal.
In the end for the TV;s you might neet to get a signal amplifier that is
compatible with your service provider to extend the run.
The longer the run the weaker the signal and when you split it with TV's in the
house even weaker.
So split the services Internet and TV at the road - separate lines - Fiber for
internet and R6 for Cable TV.
Fiber is fine at 700 ft but you could have issues with the TV signal. It might
work for all your TV's, just one or none --- splitters will further weaken
the signal.
In the end for the TV;s you might neet to get a signal amplifier that is
compatible with your service provider to extend the run.
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