Internet

[ultrarunner]

You can try to do lots of due diligence, but even then, if you get a motivated seller, they will give you unlisted deals to make quotas. So you can never tell. Talk to other tenants and owners to find out what they have gotten.

AT&T is not worth the premium in my opinion, and especially because many plans have no guarantees of uptime performance, etc. That is ok for home use to my mind, but not for business use. We have one location that they quoted $500/mo for 50Mbit, twenty four month commitment.

Comcast business can be a good deal, but be very careful at renewal not to let them auto renew, as they have had a tendency to really drive up the rate at renewal. You do have to watch what you get quoted, 200Mbit down and how many up? 10? 200? Symmetric service is worth a great deal more to many business, unless they are just providing web surfing for customers in a waiting room.

I have had much better experiences with local tech savvy resellers; yes, it is the same product, but you pay the same or less and get great service.

All the best,

Peter

Thank You Peter…

Yep the auto renew or coming off a plan can be a disaster…

ATT for the Hospital averaged 2,000-2500 month.

When the packages retired after years it went to $12,500!!!

Through lots of calls and account rep was able to get it way down but takes forever to issue a credit…

I use to love ATT for integrity and best service bar none but that all started to change late 70’s…

Comcast has some good service promises but at the height of Covid was not worth the paper written on even being both hospital and telcom essential business.

I find it odd that ATT advertises speed but does not warrant it.

 

[Torvy]

Could not pay me to return to AT&T.

We have two (soon to be 1 again) in the city. Frontier has fiber here. Have spectrum, but it drops. Both work well when they work.

Now that wife is retired, we don't need the spectrum anymore. Just need to change email addresses.

 

[oosik]

Well - here I am -- two years later. Not even a whisper regarding Starlink. I'm still on HughesNet and just putting along. Still adequate for all my needs.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I'm here to tell you, Windstream is NOT the answer. They'll promise you the moon and give you dirt. With them, you can totally forget about streaming - you'll be lucky to be able to read TbN. I know.

 

[Diggin It]

WS Rules for me. Got me off Starband (early Sat internet) several years back. Started out around 3Mb and they've continually upgraded the system to where I'm now getting over 30 consistently.

They're working on running fiber to a lot of rural areas, but I don't expect to see it anytime soon.

 

[blee03]

it is very expensive...this is after $2,800 for a 60' tower. I'm not impressed with their follow up service. Still don't have internet and they haven't even brought the drone up on my land yet...been almost 3 weeks. Still looking for alternatives. Haven't heard back from Ubifi yet.

See if T-Mobile is available in your area
Free equipment, $50 a month out the door, speeds vary but I've seen almost 200mb down. If it doesn't work out you can send back the modem and cancel with no fees.

 

[Ravimor]

See if T-Mobile is available in your area
Free equipment, $50 a month out the door, speeds vary but I've seen almost 200mb down. If it doesn't work out you can send back the modem and cancel with no fees.

Agree about Tmobile. It has the greatest 5G availability, and big surface coverage. You can try contact them at https://tmobile.pissedconsumer.com/customer-service.html for more information about your area. We never had any issues.

 

[bigtiller]

Windstream is our phone and internet provider. It was down for 26 days last month.

It's hard to brag about them right now.

 

[newbury]

Well - here I am -- two years later. Not even a whisper regarding Starlink. I'm still on HughesNet and just putting along. Still adequate for all my needs.

Have you looked into Starlink RV?

And I've followed this thread for 2 years and this week I found

this was at the end of my driveway!!
FIBER!! I'm going to start with 100 down/up for $60 plus all the incidentals.

 

[ponytug]

Have you looked into Starlink RV?

And I've followed this thread for 2 years and this week I found
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this was at the end of my driveway!!
FIBER!! I'm going to start with 100 down/up for $60 plus all the incidentals.

Wow! Lucky you. Did you have any heads up that fiber was coming?

All the best,

Peter