Rural internet options question/Update and new question!

[Shellshocker66]

Sounds like you're going to be in the heart of downtown. I don't even hit pavement for 3 miles, the nearest cow is about 5 miles from me and, I'm in Los Angeles County.

LOL! If I didn't have an elderly mother, I would try to find a place a little further out. But this is a good compromise with 10 acres and still close to doctors and hospitals (about 12 miles away).

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I'm going wait till I get up there and go talk to the neighbors which one is apparently an in-law to one of my 2nd cousins. Maybe they have the goods on how to get internet. Although the property management swears it has cable connections, I've yet to find one cable company that says they service the area. I think she is mistaking the coax for sat TV for cable coax.

[Shellshocker66]

So I found a company that says they provide DSL to area. Century Link keeps saying they can run a phone line, DSL, and DirectTV out to the property. But this is what the online agent wrote when I said "It's nice to know I can get DSL out there"

WE cannot guarantee it until it is working but all services are the same with thatt disclaimer.

Should I be worried that they will sell me a package with a 2 year agreement and then I will be stuck paying for a service that isn't available?

[den888]

I use Virgin's $50 a month plan. My data throughput is iffy, sometimes great (1.5 mbps) and sometimes not (128-256 kbps). Depends in the area that I am at.

[Loner]

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Announces-Fixed-Residential-LTE-Service-118704

Verizon just announced there plans for rural wireless ISP via their LTE tech. So if you can get a Verizon signal, you can get on it.

[ubet]

I have hughesnet, its not great but it works. My wife and I stream netflix almost daily with it. 2-4hrs of watching and we are over our plan 350mbs a day I think. Ours is 1mb or slower download and sometimes it will render, sometimes not. If you are coming from a really high speed internet conncetion its gonna drive you nuts.

If you have 3g service and its stable, I would root a cell phone and use it as a hotspot before hughesnet. You can also try wildblue they have plans of 5mbs down.

[JDay]

Wireless Relay of Cable/DSL/fiber

Essentially, long range wi-fi. It has been done, often, and continues to be done in such a way in many rural places. You just need a solid setup where the one home that is within range becomes the ISP for all the out of range homes. Aka, good neighbors.

Done correctly you can bounce it up winding canyons (I've done it in a commercial application many years ago in Big Sur) for miles.

You also need line of sight. Not to mention the latency is no better than sat. It is really not worth the time and effort to set this up and it would be a violation of the service providers TOS.

[Hoop]

There's wireless all over rural Oregon. That, or use cellphone service and just resign yourself to not doing much downloading/gaming.

Satellite is horrible don't go there.

[JDay]

There's wireless all over rural Oregon. That, or use cellphone service and just resign yourself to not doing much downloading/gaming.

Satellite is horrible don't go there.

The satellite service I posted above is just as fast as cable internet, the only difference is the latency.