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re: How important is internet options when you are choosing where to live
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:39 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:39 am to kywildcatfanone
The only viable option to Starlink IMO if you are in a rural area is Tmobile Home Internet. It just depends on your location. Below is a link to check availability. Have a buddy close to town that doesn't have cable/fiber as an option but has Tmobile and has great transmission speeds. And it's only $60 / month!
Tmobile Home Internet Availability
If Tmobile doesn't work for you (like me), don't mess around with any other crap such as Hughes Sat, DSL, using your phone, etc. It will just end up frustrating you. Get Starlink. $600 upfront for dishy and then $120/month. Works great. I WFH and have a house full of people streaming this and that at any given time. I have it extended to my shop 200 feet away and it works great there also.
Tmobile Home Internet Availability
If Tmobile doesn't work for you (like me), don't mess around with any other crap such as Hughes Sat, DSL, using your phone, etc. It will just end up frustrating you. Get Starlink. $600 upfront for dishy and then $120/month. Works great. I WFH and have a house full of people streaming this and that at any given time. I have it extended to my shop 200 feet away and it works great there also.
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:42 am to chrome_daddy
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If Tmobile doesn't work for you (like me), don't mess around with any other crap such as Hughes Sat, DSL, using your phone, etc.
Agreed.
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And it's only $60 / month!
50 if you set up automatic payments from your bank account.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:46 am to kywildcatfanone
Does your electric power provider offer internet?
I’m located in MS & the rural power providers are doing a pretty good job of getting fiber internet to rural customers.
I’m located in MS & the rural power providers are doing a pretty good job of getting fiber internet to rural customers.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:51 am to kywildcatfanone
If you can find an area with Fiber to the Home, that is the pinnacle of internet service.
I have REV (formerly EATEL/Vision Commincations) at home and at work.
Both provide Fiber to the Home and Business. They are still building out some areas with fiber to the home or business especially in the former Vision Communications service territory. I was lucky to have Fiber to the Home installed 3 years ago before hurricane Ida. Hurricane Ida slowed them down from expanding Fiber to the Home, but in the areas that could be repaired they rebuilt their Coax system, and in places like Grand Isle where it was a total rebuild, they went straight Fiber to the Home.
Now the newer generations of DOCSIS do show some promises of higher speeds, especially on the upload side, but copper still relies on RF signals to be sent over Cable any water ingress into the lines will cause short issues and signals to drop.
I have REV (formerly EATEL/Vision Commincations) at home and at work.
Both provide Fiber to the Home and Business. They are still building out some areas with fiber to the home or business especially in the former Vision Communications service territory. I was lucky to have Fiber to the Home installed 3 years ago before hurricane Ida. Hurricane Ida slowed them down from expanding Fiber to the Home, but in the areas that could be repaired they rebuilt their Coax system, and in places like Grand Isle where it was a total rebuild, they went straight Fiber to the Home.
Now the newer generations of DOCSIS do show some promises of higher speeds, especially on the upload side, but copper still relies on RF signals to be sent over Cable any water ingress into the lines will cause short issues and signals to drop.
This post was edited on 4/30/24 at 10:52 am
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:52 am to kywildcatfanone
Had Starlink for a couple of years before Charter finally got fiber to us. It was an okay solution. It had some latency issues and we would get regular slowdowns due to traffic. Gaming sucked (according to my teenage kids), but it handled WFH reasonably well. That said, when I got the fiber, it was night and day difference. Super fast response times and awesome gaming (again, per our teens).
I would say Starlink has made the transition to rural living way better, but there’s no substitute (right now) for a full fiber connection.
I would say Starlink has made the transition to rural living way better, but there’s no substitute (right now) for a full fiber connection.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:56 am to kywildcatfanone
Starlink. Best money I ever spent. Before that it was cross your fingers with cell phone hotspots. I haven’t even mounted it on a post yet. It’s just in the yard pointed at a wall of trees. Still getting 80mbps which is plenty as I’m not a gamer or such.
This post was edited on 4/30/24 at 10:57 am
Posted on 4/30/24 at 11:14 am to kywildcatfanone
Inlaws are on some kind of microwave dish. Probably good for emailing chain letters and such but not streaming HD TV. They have a metal roof so cellular takes a big hit also
Posted on 4/30/24 at 11:18 am to kywildcatfanone
This was a huge factor when we purchased our land. Confirmed multiple times what was available, lucked out and have att fiber in the middle of nowhere 
Posted on 4/30/24 at 11:43 am to BoogaBear
Thanks for all the responses folks.
Yes, having Fiber is great, I really don't want to lose it, and looking at the state map for coverage, it appears that fiber ends on my road at my neighborhood.
I did check the address against Tmobile Home internet, and it says it's not available.
The guy who owns the land just called me and said that one neighbor told him he used Verizon Cellular Internet Service. I'm going to google that and see, but it sounds like the Tmobile solution.
I also ask him for the phone number for the family with Starlink to talk to them about how it works for them.
Honestly, we don't need a super fast internet. My WFH work isn't that taxing on my internet connection, mostly we want to be able to stream hulu/netflix, etc and migth be using 2 streams at the same time, and surfing on the phone and a ring doorbell.
Yes, having Fiber is great, I really don't want to lose it, and looking at the state map for coverage, it appears that fiber ends on my road at my neighborhood.
I did check the address against Tmobile Home internet, and it says it's not available.
The guy who owns the land just called me and said that one neighbor told him he used Verizon Cellular Internet Service. I'm going to google that and see, but it sounds like the Tmobile solution.
I also ask him for the phone number for the family with Starlink to talk to them about how it works for them.
Honestly, we don't need a super fast internet. My WFH work isn't that taxing on my internet connection, mostly we want to be able to stream hulu/netflix, etc and migth be using 2 streams at the same time, and surfing on the phone and a ring doorbell.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 11:55 am to kywildcatfanone
I just checked Starlink map, and for that address is says download speed range from 63-150mbps. That that bad really. Uploads from 10-13mbps.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 12:07 pm to kywildcatfanone
I ain't going anywhere I can't get fiber
Posted on 4/30/24 at 1:21 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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I think a lot of RV parks have high speed options though.
They claim to but most I have found are hit and miss. They are getting better in response to the market (albeit slowly) but most of the time a puck is better.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 1:23 pm to kywildcatfanone
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having Fiber is great
My fiber was set up where it's underground to a point. The previous owner paid to have it run above ground to the house. It's on the power lines to the house.
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