Thread: Rural Internet

So as most know I live RURAL hehehe like in the Backwoods of North Idaho

Sometimes around last Sept we dropped our Hughesnet whiuch we had used for over 10 years..
Hughesnet is very reliable but VERY slow and VERY limited, no streaming, barely able to watch Youtube without buffering
We had a Local company "Interwave" come out and do a site test, we switched to them and OMG everything started working. we had real speed and reliability so much so we moved into the 21st century at least to about 2010 tech LOL
We had streaming we dropped our Landline life was pretty good for 5 months
Then we get an e-mail that says "so sorry AT&T dropped our contract and we can no longer offer service as of Jan 16th
I finally bit the $$$ Bullet and ordered Starlink after 2 months of waiting it finally arrived yesterday
Easy peasy set up that allowed me to use my old Hughesnet names and Passwords which we had used for the Inrewave setup also
It was a long wait, and fairly costly in comparison to both Hughesnet and Interwave but so far the speed isn't even in the same realm
Hughes was maybe on a good day 10mb download and 1mb Interwave clocked at around 20mb down and 2mb up first test with Starlink was 97mb down and 15mb up for rural system this is crazy fast :P

Anyway you will once again see me on here like before

Good to hear that your internet is finally fixed.

But aren't you afraid those electromagnetic waves will cause you traumatic brain distress?

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Good to hear!

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

But aren't you afraid those electromagnetic waves will cause you traumatic brain distress?

Not to speak of what they do to Remi

Starlink. A great option for the remote locations indeed.
And happy to see your posts more often Glen.
So now that you are on star link, does that mean you can connect to it anywhere, or just from your home location? I was thinking it like other sat services and you take your access everywhere you go?

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Starlink. A great option for the remote locations indeed.
And happy to see your posts more often Glen.
So now that you are on star link, does that mean you can connect to it anywhere, or just from your home location? I was thinking it like other sat services and you take your access everywhere you go?

I think Elon Musk provides a Starlink mobile option. https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/gui...rlink-rv-boat/

Glad to hear service is back for you Glen!

I just dropped Concast because they went up even more ridiculous and Ezee fiber Optics just intalled through the hood over the summer and I got it. Much cheaper and better. Got an Amazon Firestick and I love it. I can also got to mybundletv.com and get different apps like Netflex, Hulu, Roku and more for so much less than Concast!