Fast internet problem

[Fredkrueger100]

My wife and I are in the process of buying a house in the country. Now I ain't talking about middle of nowhere country. Its a small community with a small school. Vyve broadband has service all over out there and I currently have it where I live now. I called to see if I could transfer my service to the new house and was told that I could get service but they would have to run a line to my house. I know I am at least 300 feet away because that is what they checked today. But I may be 1,000+ feet away. Who knows. They charge $10 a foot so depending on how far away the box is I could end up paying thousands to have service. I currently get their 105mbps speed. I use a lot of internet for my job and my wife's job as well as my PS4, sons xbox one, my dish receiver, and my tv and phones. And computer of course. I have checked into ATT and they don't have fast internet there either. The fastest they have is dsl which is only up to 6mbps. Ain't gonna cut it. And that is ridiculously high for how slow and bad their service is. My dad and uncle just switched from it. They paid almost as much as me for that slow and unreliable crap. What are my options? I have checked Online and there doesn't seem to be anything. The best thing is a mobile hotspot but I have had that before and went over the pathetic 10gb data cap in a few days. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[yukonjack]

Kinda hard to say without knowing where. Out here all we can get is AtLink. Good speed in the late morning and early afternoon. It's like dialup after that. Nonexistent if it gets to overcast or rains hard. Power surges or interruptions can knock it out until someone goes to the tower to reset it. No other options that are any better.

 

[CBarCRanch]

Well....bad news. Sometimes you can't have your cake and eat it too.

 

[NightShade]

There are a couple options, the cheapest is to find someone who is able to receive service and get to become friends with them. Make sure they are line of sight to your place and grab a WiFi AP/Bridge devices and create your own link. Give your new friend ten or fifteen bucks a month and go from there. You can easily shoot a connection 1000 feet if you have line of sight between two points.

I have talked about it all a few times before in other posts on the forums as well as links to the stuff to do it with. This is basically the same thing that companies like @tLink do with some stuff that costs a little more and is designed to be placed on a large tower or very tall building. I did exactly this while I was living in Lawton for one of the now defunct WISP's there that was bought out by Wichita Online which is now Rise Broadband. If you need help figuring stuff out let me know and I will be happy to help. If you need help setting it up we can work something out that won't leave you feeling like a Mack truck just ran you over.

 

[p238shooter]

Welcome to country living. Many parts of it are really great, minimal internet, sat. TV service, and an occasional skunk coming by to say hello to your dogs is also part of it in many areas. I am 8 miles from the closest loaf of bread sitting on a shelf if I really need one, 18 miles from a real grocery store. Boat dock is only one mile away.

$177.65 for 30Gig at a speed just fast enough to watch an average U-Tube is the largest and fastest Exceed satellite package. Everything else is smaller and slower. I do have the option of purchasing additional 1Gig chunks at $15 each. I had cell phone hot spot for a while, but it was too slow and intermittent for close to the same price.

My rural electric company is stringing fiber on their existing poles starting in the most populated areas. They have indicated we are in the later part of their 5 year plan. Ha

We will be sitting in the hot tub watching the stars later this evening. Usually darker here especially if there is no moon. Nice not to have neighbors.

Good Luck finding something, let me know if it might help me.

 

[dennishoddy]

Exceed is what I'm forced to use here in the sticks at our house. 10gigs per month doesn't go far.

 

[D. Hargrove]

Out in our neck of the woods it is Hughesnet or nada. Better off with nada IMHO.

 

[BryanDP]

For the first six or so years at my country place we had Wildblue. It started out OK, but got really slow before we canceled. I called to complain once that I wasn't getting the speed down that I was paying for and they told me, "We're launching a new satellite next year." I canceled on the spot.

Thankfully we eventually figured out that the phone provider out of Mannford had DSL out there. We didn't have a phone, but we got one. They had to run about 1,000 feet down to my place from the pedestal out by the street and the install cost me $79. It's only 3GB advertised, but we stream Netflix, general surfing, run security cameras, remotely access computers and I've worked remotely out there on my company's VPN several times. Never felt sluggish or slow. Not sure about the

Maybe try the DSL first? Worst case it makes you appreciate the $3,000-10,000 install for the fast stuff!

 

[Shadowrider]

If you have a 6mb DSL that's going to be your best option. I had AT&T 6meg DSL for years even though I'm 7000' from the switch and could only get like 3.5 down, but it worked just fine. I wasn't streaming HD video to 3 TVs like I am now on cable but I worked remotely into a client's VPN for several years streaming radio and surfing too without issue. With my work I'll have 4 or 5 browser windows running at times. When I upgraded I went to Uverse and it was good for a long time and then went to crap speedwise but was still reliable. If they offer it there do it.

 

[Fredkrueger100]

I won't get dsl. My dad and uncle had nothing but problems with theirs. It was always down and super slow. I can't get by with that speed. I will probably just cave and pay the cost to have the line ran. Even though it shouldn't cost a dang dime. My loan officer said he has windstream in jacktown and lives over 500 feet off the road and they laid the line for free. Cannot believe a company would rather lose a customer than to lay a line. It ain't that hard to do. We lay gas lines all the time and that is much more difficult but when someone wants service we don't penalize them for getting it. Apparently Vyve does. Obviously they are concerned with money so I don't see the reasoning behind it. They either lay the line or lose a customer. And if they would put a box in the neighborhood they could potentially have 10+ people subscribe. Plain stupidity.