For those living in rural areas, how do you get good internet speeds?

[BachelorForLifeParticipant 483]

Once I’m able to move out of state and out my parent’s place, I intend to get a tiny house out in the woods, preferably, a large and dense forest area. The only problem is internet. I have no f~~~ing clue how to get good internet out there, especially with a lot of companies discontinuing DSL. I know there are satellite options, but do they charge by data, like phone companies do?

If I had the money to install fiber optics, I would, but fiber is expensive as f~~~ to even install.

[chirParticipant]

Look at HughesNet. All they do is satellite and there is no landline required.
You would need to figure out your average monthly data usage and pick a plan.

Used this at a jobsite that was out in the sticks. Reliable except during a bad blizzard.
https://www.satelliteinternet.com/plans-pricing

However if you get good cellular LTE or 4G signal you could use a Global Modem USB730L and connect it into a compatible WiFi router so you can have local wifi devices connected. You would need to have your monthly data be under 10gb per month though.

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[Anonymous 3]

I suggest to look up what mobile data coverage of the carriers. It is all about the frequency range and what generation your phone can handle.

downside: it’s expensive, limited amount of data, and only fast enough for web browsing. Video watching and downloads will only work well near the city.

I think, if you go off the grid then you need to re-design your data needs. For example, cloud services or youtube will not be a good idea to continue using. And you need to install Noscript and an ad blocker and tracker blocker into the web browser to have it faster, and proably block Flash animations as well. All of this s~~~ consumes a lot of data and cpu and memory, and terrible for privacy anyway. Begin to prefer web pages with text and pictures rather than videos, save locally the webpages or content you will probably need later, and so on.

And one more trick is to set privacy settings of the browser to clean all the s~~~ (like history and cookies) on exit, but not the cache. I do it like that, although this is a compromise between speed and privacy, but probably helps to reduce data usage.

[Anonymous 14]

@bachelorforlife –
Define good internet speed, lol, just kidding.

I can get up to near 2mbps downloading at peak performance. Weather, Geo-magnetic storms, etc can all degrade this to the point of having no service whatsoever.

Expect to pay out the ass for sub-par service. Expect to be put on a data meter unless you have 500+ bucks to spend. Granted, I don’t do dish for philosophical reasons. That said, there are options out there but it depends on what part of the country you are from. Most of them SUCK.

[BachelorForLifeParticipant 483]

Thanks, I’ll most likely get satellite from what’s being said or use my cellular data. That sounds like the most viable option, only downside is that you have to go by data plans, which suck ass. But, it’s definitely worth it to get out of the city.

Plus I don’t use that much data as is, so I think I could get away with only using 10GB or less. I am a gamer, but usually play offline games and classics on emulators.

[Anonymous 3]

BachelorForLife wrote:

I could get away with only using 10GB or less

Yes, 10 GB monthly sounds reasonable.

[WPLParticipant 2390]

Satellite. Dish, in my case. The cell network is too patchy to rely upon for data use. My service is relatively slow, fairly expensive (~$120/month), and drops out in very hard rainstorms (and sometimes for no apparent reason at all — but that’s no different from when I had ComCrap cable back in the “city”). I have a 50GB/mo “soft” cap (speeds drop to about dial-up range beyond the cap). I used to have a 20 GB/mo cap, and I constantly ran up against that. Ten GB per month may go faster than you’d think.

[BachelorForLifeParticipant 483]

WPL wrote:

Ten GB per month may go faster than you’d think.

I’ll definitely look into that then. The only thing keeping me in the city is the need for internet, especially for when I apply to future jobs and definitely when I want to work remotely.

If I can’t find a viable solution for the internet out in the woods, I’m most likely just going to buy a small house or an apartment/condo in the city. I intend to be a programmer and work remotely from home, so my job would definitely depend on quite a bit of data at that.

[TsarParticipant 393]

Anonymous wrote:

Expect to pay out the ass for sub-par service. Expect to be put on a data meter unless you have 500+ bucks to spend.

S~~~ like this just reinforces my opinion that companies are in cahoots with the government to try and herd people into the soul-less and mind numbing hell holes that are cities.

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[Anonymous 14]

Tsar wrote:

General Kenobi wrote:

Expect to pay out the ass for sub-par service. Expect to be put on a data meter unless you have 500+ bucks to spend.

S~~~ like this just reinforces my opinion that companies are in cahoots with the government to try and herd people into the soul-less and mind numbing hell holes that are cities.

I don’t doubt that a bit Tsar. Schoolkids have to download and send in their homework every night via the glorious interwebs. Thank the Maker I have no kids as I would max out on my data in no time.

These pricks used to charge me $20 a gig for every gig I went over my data limit. I recently upgraded 6 gigs for uhmmm, 20 bucks. It’s a bad, bad joke and as usual, the poor get f~~~ed.

[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

As someone who routinely has to deal with this kind of thing at the office, your two most viable choices are satellite or microwave. AKA Hugesnet (satellite) or MCI Datacomm (microwave).

But ‘good’ internet speed needs to be scaled down to ‘in the woods speed’. Dont’ expect you’re going to be getting 30,60,100 meg. If you get 5-10 meg service you should prob be happy at that. Bush internet speed isn’t nearly as fast as city speed.

[Can’t Stump TrumpParticipant]

There are many benefits to living in rural areas, but your local ISP sure isn’t one of them. Whatever choice you make, I agree with the sentiment that you’ll have to scale back your needs somewhat.

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[iMickey503Participant 12465]

There are only 2 ways to do this.

Speaking from experience here.

You can set up a Long range WIFI link. If you know someone in town, and they have a line of sight to your home, then you can set up 2 cheap devices up and get a full 300Mb Link point to point as long as you don’t encrypt the stream with simple devices from up to a mile away with Can Antennas or using a parabolic dish.

Here is a link to some equipment.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/39902-43-long-range-miles-directional-wifi-signal-boosting

Now the thing is if you do this, you can do this up to 5 miles with normal DIY stuff.

However, if you do have the IDEAL conditions, then 10 mile range is not out of the question.

THe idea is to have someone in town that has a High area that they live at that has a good Broadband connection at the home, then they aim the antenna to your home where of course you receive it.

I have done a signal for up to 3 miles once, but the Radios kept burning out 🙂

Let me know what you wish to do. THere are TONS of things you can do just at home with basic garbage to do this. But if you want to go FULL OUT. Lots of gear out there. To bad WIMAX gear never really got to where it could have.

But WIMAX radio’s sure are a good way to go!

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[narwhalParticipant]

Tsar wrote:

General Kenobi wrote:

Expect to pay out the ass for sub-par service. Expect to be put on a data meter unless you have 500+ bucks to spend.

S~~~ like this just reinforces my opinion that companies are in cahoots with the government to try and herd people into the soul-less and mind numbing hell holes that are cities.

Not really. Infrastructure costs money. It’s perfectly logical that costs are lower for customers when their are more customers available to distribute the costs among. Not to mention competition to bring prices down. I understand you’re dealing with satellite, but it is still infrastructure (with limited throughput) and a smaller pool of customers. Really it’s capitalism at it’s best.

Ok. Then do it.

[Chase PesosParticipant 2136]

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