Different locations have different issues, but I think your potential for great and affordable seasonal broadband is actually excellent. Conferencing, pairing,

Different locations have different issues, but I think your potential for great and affordable seasonal broadband is actually excellent. Conferencing, pairing, and streaming are going to be just fine. You're a techie --- you can solve this. Since I'm fond of rural Wisconsin, and have solved similar cellular problems elsewhere, allow me to make some suggestions. If the tower you are able to hit with 2 bars is AT&T, buy a used/refurbished MR1100 cellular router for less than $150 from Ebay, buy a high gain 4G MIMO antenna and cables for about $100 (try to learn what frequency your tower is on first), and pay $50 a month for an unlimited AT&T data sim (I've used this guy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4G-LTE-ATT-Unlimited-HOTSPOT-Data-50-UNTHROTTLED-NO-CAPS-TRUTLY-UNLIMITED/223079075380 https://www.ebay.com/itm/4G-LTE-ATT-Unlimited-HOTSPOT-Data-5...). If your closest tower is not AT&T, there's probably something comparable. There's probably not a great price advantage to the SIM card resellers, but they do make it easier to try things out. I'm currently using an excellent local provider instead of AT&T (VTelWireless), and a speed test just confirmed I'm at a delightfully usable 50/25 Mbit/s.