There's a new home internet provider coming to a town near you.

Just remember Elon Musk has a lot of money tied up in this little endevor.

 

Just purchased property in the trees.

Local cable provider is maxed out... they figure 6 months to a year for a hook up (basically somebody has to die or move out). And they are unwilling to upgrade/expand the existing system

Cellular providers don't want to do a true unlimited plan for the house.

Can't see the microwave internet transmitter on the mountain cause of the neighbors trees.

Equatorial geostationary satellites are very marginal where I am (between Portland, OR and Seattle) Need to mount the dish on a tower on top of the shop to get over the southern neighbors trees.

My choices as I see it are build a tower to get over the trees for Microwave or use Satellite.

If his net becomes available up this way I would be inclined to use it.

 

Sounds like paradise. No internet, no phone, no T.V.

 

Not far off.... the phone still works.... but I know when and how to turn it off.

 

I get my locals on HULU.

 

We actually use the internet for more than Forum trolling, T.V., and porn.

Well at least the wife does. She is a contractor doing editing work on textbooks so needs a modern up and download rate to transfer text books up and down.

We also do online gaming with voice chat channels so that 10mbps dsl line was not even on our list.......

We're figuring on looking again at the cell carriers, But my bet is we will end up on current satellite then grow toward this new satellite stuff.

 

Digital subscriber line - DSL

 

I get 3 out of four locals with an indoor antenna. Plus Decades, AntennaTV, Movies, and a few others. The rest I stream from PlutoTV and YubiTV apps with Chromecast. I just dropped Netflix after 6 years.

Paying for 200 cable channels a month is just a bad habit. I thought I would miss ESPN, but I don't miss that or any other cable program.