re: Rural Internet options. Unlimitedville?

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Since it's using the ATT network and I have ATT on my phone, if I do a speed test on my phone at the home's location, will that be a good measure of what to expect with this connection?

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Yes.

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Who are you paying bill to? ATT?

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Yes. After you pay ($30) to that guy on that eBay auction link that I referenced above, he transfers the service into your name and you have have an unlimited data plan with AT&T that is tied to the SIM card and hotspot router that you purchased. You'll have the $29.99 monthly data fee charge taken out of whatever payment method you setup through the AT&T data page. You can use a debit/credit card or checking account.

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If you set this up through ATT, I assume they charge more?

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Yes, they will open your butt hole up as wide as the top of a 55 gallon drum. As I stated above, pay the guy the $30 on the eBay auction to transfer the service over to your name. Then, after the transfer, you'll continue to pay $29.99 per month. You'll have your own data account, in your name. See pic below; after I login into my AT&T data account, that's what I see:

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How much are the routers and Google mesh devices?

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Look on eBay or Amazon. I paid $115 for my Nighthawk hotspot router, $240 for my 3 pack of Google Mesh routers, and the SIM card for around $3 on eBay.

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Do the connection work okay from main house to the basement?

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If you position the mesh routers properly, I guess? I don't know about your house configuration.

Also, for clarification purposes....what I did was go into my settings of my nighthawk router and configure it as a passthrough router. Meaning, all you really need it to do is to grab the cell phone tower data signal and you hardwire (via an ethernet cable) the nighthawk router to one of your Google Mesh routers. Here's a screenshot of the setting in the nighthawk router you'll need to change:



I hope I'm not making this sound overly difficult, because in reality, it isn't. Once you have all of this turned on and you start messing with it, it'll all make sense.