Rural Internet Service

[GilpinGuy]

Once again I am searching for a better internet service than satellite. Our satellite data cap is exceeded in a week. Then it's just painfully slow and I'm better off using my cell phone as a mobile hot spot.

Has anyone used or heard of BroadbandQ Wireless? I just found them online. They use the cell network, which is viable for me since I do that myself with pretty good results with just my cell phone when my satellite data cap is reached.

What's interesting here to me is that this company claims unlimited steaming of Netflix, Amazon, etc. If this is true, I would ditch DirecTV, get the best plan available from BroadbandQ, and still be ahead.

I though someone here might have had an experience with them.

[buffalobo]

No experience with them.

Out here Viaero uses the cell system to provide wireless internet. About only game for those who live outside local rural telecom service area. Service cost same as local telecom. 15mbs service = $55/month.

Due to a dispute between two providers we lost our wireless broadband service and went with local telecom's internet service provided over fiber system. It is not as good or as reliable as our previous wireless service.

[iego]

Once again I am searching for a better internet service than satellite. Our satellite data cap is exceeded in a week. Then it's just painfully slow and I'm better off using my cell phone as a mobile hot spot.

Has anyone used or heard of BroadbandQ Wireless? I just found them online. They use the cell network, which is viable for me since I do that myself with pretty good results with just my cell phone when my satellite data cap is reached.

What's interesting here to me is that this company claims unlimited steaming of Netflix, Amazon, etc. If this is true, I would ditch DirecTV, get the best plan available from BroadbandQ, and still be ahead.

I though someone here might have had an experience with them.

I have people that look at phone systems, and I can ask them to look at yours. It may be that you are already as good as you can do, but then again, maybe not.

-John

[longrange2]

Take a look at Ubifi too, I have been investigating them for my place.

[def90]

Once again I am searching for a better internet service than satellite. Our satellite data cap is exceeded in a week. Then it's just painfully slow and I'm better off using my cell phone as a mobile hot spot.

Has anyone used or heard of BroadbandQ Wireless? I just found them online. They use the cell network, which is viable for me since I do that myself with pretty good results with just my cell phone when my satellite data cap is reached.

What's interesting here to me is that this company claims unlimited steaming of Netflix, Amazon, etc. If this is true, I would ditch DirecTV, get the best plan available from BroadbandQ, and still be ahead.

I though someone here might have had an experience with them.

If your cell service works why not just use it? Pretty much all the carriers have devices that will provide a cell hot spot vs using your phone.

something like this:

https://www.verizonwireless.com/internet-devices/

[longrange2]

Most of the cell company solutions have pretty strict data caps or very high pricing for unlimited data, Ubifi uses the AT&T network but is supposed to be unlimited data with no caps and no throttling.

[GilpinGuy]

I've been looking into the cell option. Service in the house is pretty bad, but up on the roof it's great. So I'd need an antenna up there and a router in the house. I'm learning a lot about this stuff. For what I'm considering here it would cost about $600 but it would pay for itself over time. And I have AT&T.

[GilpinGuy]

I finally found a solution: MOFI4500-4GXELTE-SIM4_COMBO

It' a cellular router and was $315. I took the SIM card from my tablet and upgraded the data package for it with AT&T for $20/month - our shitty satellite internet service was $70/month and we usually bought $20-$30 worth of additional data every month.

This thing is BAD ASS. We've been streaming movies, YT and the kids are online gaming without any issues for about two weeks now. Cell service is marginal at best at our house. 2 bars on the phone on a good day. You could get yagi antennas to mount on the roof if your signal is REAL bad. I thought I'd try the unit with the antennas it came with before getting the yagi's and we don't need them apparently.

If you have a cell signal at your rural/remote location, I highly recommend this.

[Gman]

Glad you found something that's working for you. I expect this type of solution to be more common as 5G is rolled out (probably in more urban areas).

[davsel]

I finally found a solution: MOFI4500-4GXELTE-SIM4_COMBO

It' a cellular router and was $315. I took the SIM card from my tablet and upgraded the data package for it with AT&T for $20/month - our shitty satellite internet service was $70/month and we usually bought $20-$30 worth of additional data every month.

This thing is BAD ASS. We've been streaming movies, YT and the kids are online gaming without any issues for about two weeks now. Cell service is marginal at best at our house. 2 bars on the phone on a good day. You could get yagi antennas to mount on the roof if your signal is REAL bad. I thought I'd try the unit with the antennas it came with before getting the yagi's and we don't need them apparently.

If you have a cell signal at your rural/remote location, I highly recommend this.

I never considered this. I get about 2 bars on my cell with AT&T and currently use a Rise Broadband antenna getting about 3 Mb/s while paying $56 a month for 100 Mb/s because they have not upgraded their antenna out on Badger Mt. Fortunately, I don't game, but even HULU is often buffering.

So, does AT&T just consider this another device on your plan and you pay for unlimited data for that device? Does AT&T throttle-back your data after a certain amount?