Internet For Rural Areas - Ideas?

[RaiderNation45]

I’m looking for Internet access / providers for rural areas (the deer lease) . Anybody had any good outcomes with any options? Everything that I’ve read is limited or not very successful.

Just for thought, this would be 30 miles east of Laredo.

Thanks for the help!

[SaltwaterSlick]

He Brent, we use air cards with AT&T and we're right down Vaquillas road from your camp, about 5 miles like a crow flies (or should I say Cara-Cara ) We are able to live stream sports and such through the DirectTV app and Fox News. Inside our all metal mobil home, we did put a signal booster, but outside, my laptop works just fine.

[MadHatter]

Any cell towers nearby?
Look at Blazing Hog, Ubify, UnlimitedToGo, NoLimitData, etc..
In the right circumstances these services work great.

[ken800]

I live where there is no cable and there is no fiber or copper. My options were: 1) cellular - not so good and gata gets real expensive unless part time use. 2)satellite - the lag is terrible and you have data caps. It's fine for TV but not much else and you will run out of data quickly. 3)Line of Sight internet. This is what I chose.

Line of sight literally goes up on a tower (in my case 50') and is a tiny microwave(?) dish. It is pointed directly at one of western broadband's towers. I get 12Mb down and about 4 up. While this doesn't sound like much, I get it VERY consistently and ping times are usually about 24ms or less. It is super stable so streaming movies and such is never an issue in HD.

If you are doing part-time and you have a good cellular antenna, I'd just go that route as it will be cheaper than anything else.

[RaiderNation45]

Thanks Charlie! That’s what I’m thinking about. Which booster did y’all get?

[SaltwaterSlick]

It's one of the smaller wilson electronics 1 room units. My buddy got a big one for his house/office area and brought his old one out to the ranch. We can operate fine without it as long as we have AT&T service, but a couple guys have verizon and they are dead in the water without the booster.

[Dirtymike]

What is an air card?

[SaltyMutt]

I've had pretty good results with Viasat. Get around 46mbps, have had no issues streaming movie apps thus far.

[mudkat]

by deer season elon musk might have his satellite internet up and going that’s what they claim at least

[Muskles]

I've had pretty good results with Viasat. Get around 46mbps, have had no issues streaming movie apps thus far.

You must have a better plan than us. When our data starts over, it's ok. Takes about 2 days to run through our allowance, then it takes 30 minutes to watch a 5 minute YouTube video. We're looking at different options, but not sure which route we're going to take.

[MadHatter]

by deer season elon musk might have his satellite internet up and going that’s what they claim at least

They might have "A" satellite up by then.
No chance they are shipping residential units out, and putting the gen pop on by then.

[Take Dead Aim]

They might have "A" satellite up by then.
No chance they are shipping residential units out, and putting the gen pop on by then.

The are currently 420 satellites up and operational. Testing has begun. They are still behind schedule in my mind but what do I know. I believe their biggest obstacle is still figuring out the end equipment. As of January that was still in the early stages. Covid has to of slowed that down some. Once it's up and running it will put many small to medium internet companies out of business. It will also put a hurting on Verizon, ATT and the likes. Will be interesting to see how it unfolds.

[orchard]

They might have "A" satellite up by then.
No chance they are shipping residential units out, and putting the gen pop on by then.

https://twitter.com/ArnoldvSabben/status/1251978159018446849?s=20

He's got more than 1 up. I've been watching them from my property. Awesome.
The guy is a wierdo I'll give ya that. But he is a great problem solver.
Insane that this is even possible.

[doghouse]

No clue about the Laredo area, but our local telephone coop has internet for us in Mills county. Good luck.

[MadHatter]

The are currently 420 satellites up and operational. Testing has begun. They are still behind schedule in my mind but what do I know. I believe their biggest obstacle is still figuring out the end equipment. As of January that was still in the early stages. Covid has to of slowed that down some. Once it's up and running it will put many small to medium internet companies out of business. It will also put a hurting on Verizon, ATT and the likes. Will be interesting to see how it unfolds.

So, there's a lot more to this, than 420 satellite in the air.
Those 420, are suspect, and whether they will be the end product or not is suspect.
Also the residential side of things is not near as advanced as you might believe.
I follow this closely, as I am in the industry, and it will eliminate a huge piece of my business when it becomes operational in the sense of, anyone can get on no matter where you live, your latencies are good enough to do anything you wish without lag, and it is cheap enough to compete with current prices.
We'll see, and not to be misunderstood, I am all for it 100% .
My plan is to not miss a beat, when the one side dies, and the new begins.
Residentia lnternet is becoming very essential, very quickly, to almost everyone.
This pandemic has pushed it over the edge imo.
I see them fast tracking it after recent events, but not to the point being portrayed.
Been wrong before though, so keep that in mind