Re: Rural internet options??
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We live between Rhome and Decatur, in a subdivision served by CenturyLink. We used CenturyLink DSL for several years, advertised as 7.5Mb max up, 768kb max down. The DSL layer was pretty solid, though it was more like 5Mb/512kb. The actual throughput to the internet was highly dependent on my neighbors' usage. With kids home from school all day and all night in the summer, I was pretty much without internet. I definitely did not have enough usable bandwidth to work from home. The neighborhood is stable with no new construction, so it was going to be years before the service would be upgraded. I checked a couple of wireless providers and none had facilities in range of out place except for one, OneSource. Service is a 4G connection between our house and their nearest tower, which is a little over 6 miles away. It is a solid 10Mb down 2Mb up and internet throughput matches it. The one time it has failed was after a storm left us without power for a couple of days. As soon as we had power back, we had internet. However, a few hours later, we lost internet. In the course of troubleshooting with them, it was revealed that their tower had lost power. It was down for about 6 hours. My bill is just short of $75/month, which is less than CenturyLink and far more reliable. Sluggy! N5HRK On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 3:48 PM Chip S <investingchip@...> wrote: Howdy all --
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