Stumbled onto reliable rural internet access

[JethroB]

List of eligible ZipCodes:

https://www.verizon.com/about/sites/default/files/LTE-home-Internet-zip-code-list-09-2020.pdf

My zip code is listed but the Verizon site says my address isn’t supported. Make sense as I barely get a cell signal.

 

[sixdogs]

Orezok--Thank you.

How do you know your speeds?

Wow--I'm hitting well over 50. From 10 to 50 at around half the price.

 

[sixdogs]

Sounds good, but what is the data cap ?
Is it like so many others that when you
reach so many Gigabytes, it slows to nearly nothing ?

Also, does it slow way down in the evening during high usage ?

Unlimited data in at least my case. Haven't noticed any evening slowing.

 

[sixdogs]

None for me.

Call and ask. Cant hurt. Times change and six months is a long time for something that looks to be rapidly evolving.

 

[MoKelly]

Thanks for posting this information. We are on the list. I’ll call tomorrow. We get a decent signal and have a wireless/cell signal alarm so I’m hoping this will be the answer.

MoKelly

 

[Aquamoose]

I’m waiting for Starlink...

 

[ning]

I checked this out as I have no internet alternatives here, but my address doesn't qualify. I spent 40 minutes in chat with vzw and it appears nobody knows anything about the program. Indications on the broader web say that vzw has the program to meet the letter of a law and is unlikely to expand it... we'll see, I'd jump on it personally if I could.

 

[sixdogs]

I checked this out as I have no internet alternatives here, but my address doesn't qualify. I spent 40 minutes in chat with vzw and it appears nobody knows anything about the program. Indications on the broader web say that vzw has the program to meet the letter of a law and is unlikely to expand it... we'll see, I'd jump on it personally if I could.

Well, maybe you can't but I would call multiple times just to be sure. Things change. Verizon is pretty good and I think will help if they can. I spent 3 or 4 hours on the phone, mostly on hold, and no one knew what I was talking about. Finally, it clicked with the right person. I think the upper tier US people know but the call center people don't but that's a guess.

Post 2 by orezok mentions it's called LTE Home and that sounds right. My router box says that on it.

 

[mikester]

This seems to be quite common in Canada. Most of the rural places receive their internet through the cell service towers.

Yes, at $1,000 per GB transferred.

 

[Diggin It]

My DSL has been pretty solid. A few outages, but not many and not for too long. I pay about $60/mo for 25 down/1-2 up.

I'd have to be assured of a few things before I switched.