Ubifi Rural Internet

[CowboyRon]

Just keep in mine those extenders suck wireless bandwidth to talk to each other, unless you get a Mesh System. Then those talk to each other over their own wireless band.

Mesh is the only way to go, I have an orbi and it covers quite a bit of my property

 

[kcflhrc]

Mesh is the only way to go, I have an orbi and it covers quite a bit of my property

Agreed, they are awesome.

 

[shooterdon]

I hate wasting money trying to find a solution that sorta-kinda works.

Does anyone know of a company in northern MI that handles this kind of stuff. I would pay $500 plus whatever hardware is needed to eliminate my satellite TV and internet. But it has to work and allow unlimited streaming of video.

 

[Welshman]

I finally decided to go with OTR Mobile, although I ordered a MOFI 4500 rather than the devices offered by OTR - it looked like a better unit. The MOFI arrived today and the OTR SIM card should be here Monday or Tuesday.
I may start a separate thread so I don't step on this one by TheMan419, especially since he's been so helpful.
I will say, the OTR folks are VERY responsive and helpful.
Somehow I thought the MOFI had an indicator for signal strength, but no. I guess I'll have to do some trial and error with my phone.

 

[TheMan419]

I finally decided to go with OTR Mobile, although I ordered a MOFI 4500 rather than the devices offered by OTR - it looked like a better unit. The MOFI arrived today and the OTR SIM card should be here Monday or Tuesday.
I may start a separate thread so I don't step on this one by TheMan419, especially since he's been so helpful.
I will say, the OTR folks are VERY responsive and helpful.
Somehow I thought the MOFI had an indicator for signal strength, but no. I guess I'll have to do some trial and error with my phone.

The mofi does not have an external indicator. You can log into the mofi itself and get a signal strength indicator. Some of the more advanced features you need to be hooked up to the mofi with an Ethernet cable to use.

 

[Xfaxman]

I hate wasting money trying to find a solution that sorta-kinda works.

Does anyone know of a company in northern MI that handles this kind of stuff. I would pay $500 plus whatever hardware is needed to eliminate my satellite TV and internet. But it has to work and allow unlimited streaming of video.

Click this link: broadband wireless internet providers for Johannesburg MI at DuckDuckGo

 

[Welshman]

The mofi does not have an external indicator. You can log into the mofi itself and get a signal strength indicator. Some of the more advanced features you need to be hooked up to the mofi with an Ethernet cable to use.

Thanks for that, TM. I'm anxious to get the SIM and try this thing out.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Welcome to rural internet. My ISP is Frontier. I get 1.2 mbit if nobody else (40 subscribers) is using the copper. It drops to about 600 kbit if somebody decides to stream a TV show. I can sabotage them by streaming my own show. Nothing streams steadily at 500-600k, so they will reboot their router a couple times and give up. During periods of heavy use, download speed can drop as low as 250-300 kbit. I'm shopping for a satellite provider right now.

 

[Welshman]

The mofi does not have an external indicator. You can log into the mofi itself and get a signal strength indicator. Some of the more advanced features you need to be hooked up to the mofi with an Ethernet cable to use.

Thinking more about this - does this mean that the advanced features are ONLY able to be accessed with an Ethernet cable, or just for initial set-up?

 

[Welshman]

The mofi does not have an external indicator. You can log into the mofi itself and get a signal strength indicator. Some of the more advanced features you need to be hooked up to the mofi with an Ethernet cable to use.

Thinking more about this - does this mean that the advanced features are ONLY able to be accessed with an Ethernet cable, or just for initial set-up?