Internet in the Country

KiotiKowboy · Aug 31, 2015

MMagis said:
Do you watch movies/TV over the internet?

The short answer is Yes.

With Dish Network, it's possible to watch your home subscription anywhere over the Internet. It seems that stream originates on the home network - not directly from Dish. I would suspect this accounts for a large percentage of the data usage.

truckdiagnostics · Aug 31, 2015

KiotiKowboy said:
I looked at my cable Internet statement to check my average usage. It runs just over 100GB per month.

As I am about to move into the country in a few months, this topic is of some importance. It seems most of the satellite solutions have SEVERE data restrictions, so I'm looking for a good solution.

Ouch, we have wireless radio for our main internet and excide sat for back up. 40 gig comes on that sat plan. Both work well. As, mentioned bellow basically same thing happened to us. I approached company installing in town near by asked if they could do it for me, they said yes but would need a tower and subscribers. So, i hooked up with the farmer using his silo, they bounce from tower in town to the silo. then i got bunch of people in range setting everything up for the company. They gave me and the farmer 5 years free. This was maybe 10 years ago. We get 75 gig, it is like $1 gig after that, runs 7-10 down and about 3-5 up. It is really fast.

SirReal63 · Aug 31, 2015

KK, look for line of sight microwave ISP's in your area. Often they are small companies with not much advertising budget. When I found ours I thought I was out of options, but instead got what has been great service from a company that is easy to deal with. We average over 80 gigs a month, mostly streaming and it has been a Godsend.

Got2BTru · Aug 31, 2015

I have a bit of a different issue. I CAN get high speed internet from TWC, but it's 1300 feet from the road and they want a small fortune to run the cable (and I apparently am not allowed to run it).

Looking at the Ubiquiti Networks link, I wonder if they could run it to a box 100 feet from the road and then I could line of sight the distance to the house? For those that have used that method, how expensive is it?

ultrarunner · Aug 31, 2015

Got2BTru said:
I have a bit of a different issue. I CAN get high speed internet from TWC, but it's 1300 feet from the road and they want a small fortune to run the cable (and I apparently am not allowed to run it).

Looking at the Ubiquiti Networks link, I wonder if they could run it to a box 100 feet from the road and then I could line of sight the distance to the house? For those that have used that method, how expensive is it?

Have the exact same problem in Thurston County WA and it comes out to $10 per foot or 13k for the required underground line...

The home is in a dead cell zone the options are dial-up or satellite...

Did approach one of the neighbors up on the highway about setting up an account at that address... she was not interested and actually thought what I wanted to do was illegal... I would have paid for Comcast in my name and beamed the signal to the house...

Got2BTru · Aug 31, 2015

That's the pricing I'm hearing as well...and they're on CRACK! I would rather dig it myself and pay extra to lay fiber to future proof myself!

But I'm running into the same thing for power as well....they want $25k to run electrical 1300 feet!

ultrarunner · Aug 31, 2015

In my case the county now requires underground... my neighbors all have above ground which cost next to nothing.

I've been tempted to run the 2" conduit with the required boxes... would need to talk with my neighbors because I do not have highway frontage...

JamesHW · Aug 31, 2015

We have a house planned 500' from the road and were thinking where you have a long, expensive run, might it make sense to build a small studio/office/garage near the road and have the cable service terminate there and take on extending and maintaining the service to your house? If trenching and conduit are not an immediate option they have exterior WIFI antennas that might be able to extend service the last yards to your living space.

RobA · Aug 31, 2015

good thread, following.....

ultrarunner · Aug 31, 2015

I've been getting some conflicting information from Comcast...

We just had a very costly install for work... at zero cost to us.

Costly because a crew worked 4 solid days boring under a state highway and inside the city limits and had to run cable many city blocks... all underground.

Free because the medical imaging center has an exclusive contract with comcast for all it's centers so they did it... funny thing is ATT fiber is already in the building...

So in talking with the comcast engineer... he said business is treated different than residential and if I were in his service territory and signed a business fiber contract at $200 per month for 2 years... for my "Home Business" the install cost would be little or nothing... so $4800 turn key for 2 years vs $13,000 for install only and no service... also the $4800 would have faster switches and comes with a service guarantee...

I've never lived in a home with Cable or U-Verse... just have plain old DSL... so it is hard to miss something you have never had.

It has been a real obstacle with prospective renters at the Washington property.