Rural Internet Service

[Grant H.]

We had Skybeam for years which may be Rise now. It was the only choice, but it actually worked decently. It was good enough to stream Netflix and play online. We would have to call in from time to time and harass them to keep the speeds up as it would bog down over time. We have a large lake between us and the tower which would cause issues around sunset.

Did they tell you it was being over the lake at sunset was the problem?

If so, they blatantly lied to you. Being over water could be a problem if they didn't plan their link appropriately, but sunset has absolutely nothing to do with it, other than more users on at one point in time (evening, after school/work)...

I do industrial communications for a living, and the stuff I hear about the excuses that Mesa/Skybeam/Rise gives is comical. I even use all the same gear that they do, not as WISP currently, and we never have the issues that they seem to.

Mesa/Skybeam/Rise is the WISP equivalent of Vulcan/Hesse/Blackthorne in the gun world. They suck so bad they have to keep changing their name.

[th3w01f]

Did they tell you it was being over the lake at sunset was the problem?

If so, they blatantly lied to you. Being over water could be a problem if they didn't plan their link appropriately, but sunset has absolutely nothing to do with it, other than more users on at one point in time (evening, after school/work)...

I do industrial communications for a living, and the stuff I hear about the excuses that Mesa/Skybeam/Rise gives is comical. I even use all the same gear that they do, not as WISP currently, and we never have the issues that they seem to.

Mesa/Skybeam/Rise is the WISP equivalent of Vulcan/Hesse/Blackthorne in the gun world. They suck so bad they have to keep changing their name.

Not doubting you but do you have another option for those of us in "rural" areas? The limits on Satellite make it unusable for me as I hit about 150GB a month just with work.

We've got Kellin coming out on Saturday and we'll run with them and Rise if they can get a good signal. They seemed pretty confident they should be able to get us 10 - 15Mbps... I guess we will see.