We have Verizon MiFi which costs us $80 a month.... You gave us your speeds, how much bandwidth do you get for a month with your plan? We only get 15G.
I'm also in PA., up in the northeast corner. Signed up for Starlink 9 months ago and was recently told mid to late 2022 before service would be available.
The Verizon LTE Home Internet is unlimited data. When you click on it you can search to see if it is available at your location. We are waiting for 5G coverage.
I am in Susquehanna County, but was just pushed back. I know of one person near scranton who got it but no one near me. I was pricing out fiber cable to do something similar to what Alan posted his son did but its almost 1k just for the fiber.... So we wait, and wait, and wait.....
I have V LTE HI and depending on plan depends on if data is unlimited or not. I had a choice of 20G, 60G, 100G or 200G of data, then after that speeds would be severely limited. Limited to the extent it is basically unusable. We are rural enough that 5G is not available and they don't expect it ever will be. We have fiber optic on our street, $150/month for 100Mb/s download speeds, with $8500 install costs. Neighbor had the fiber installed to his house and he is not happy as his download speeds don't come close to the 100Mb/s advertised.
Yes, fiber is 'on the street', that is the cost to trench and get fiber to my house, my driveway is 1/4 mile long. There are 11 homes on my 2 mile dead end street and only 3 that I know of have signed up for fiber service. We are rural enough that the folks at the local Verizon store don't expect 5G to ever come to our area. Fiber provider claims to deliver 2Gb/s down to business's, but only a max of 100Mb/s to residential. I asked my neighbor what he was getting for speeds and his pissed off reply was "not what I am paying for", so I don't know exactly what speeds he is getting. I got the impression that when his 2 year contract was up, he was going to do something different.
T mobile is the tower that is "closest" to us, but we are down in a bit of a valley, so I would have to rig up a system at the top of our hill, and run cable back 1500 feet to our house due to all the trees and no line of sight.
Charter is 4 houses away from me. They quoted $25,000 to trench and bring a signal to me:
As I understand it there was some folks from NASA who lived in the area and NASA helped fund the install so the employees could have quality internet access at home. My house was previously owned by one of those NASA employees, but he wouldn't pay the bill to get from the street to the house either. He was using ViaSat for internet access. I was not going to sign a 2 year contract with ViaSat for their 5Mb/s download service. Our road deadends at the end of the peninsula, so no other endpoint destination.
Honestly I will, because its where I get a cell signal on my phone. Looking at the six strand its $8oo for the length I would need..... so we just need to budget a bit more for it.....