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"My wife and I are planning to move further from the city, but one of our concerns is getting decent internet (we have symmetric gigabit fiber now)." Exactly m

by FpUser 7y ago

"My wife and I are planning to move further from the city, but one of our concerns is getting decent internet (we have symmetric gigabit fiber now)." Exactly my situation. I have symmetric gigabit and due to a nature of my business requiring symmetric fat pipe I have to live in a city. The minute I could get that gigabit in a wilderness I am out.

leesalminen 7y ago
FWIW, I’m founder and CTO of a SaaS company and moved from an apartment in the city with symmetric gigabit out to the country with a 20/10 connection. It definitely was an impactful change for us at first. I had to change some work workflows to do heavy network stuff on a remote machine. It took some time to refine and make (nearly) as efficient as doing it locally. I also had to sandbox all the streaming gadgets in the house and limit their bandwidth allowance. But, the key for me was to move to an area with a reputable, locally owned WISP. It took a couple years but I found it. My WISP is run by an ex-IBMer down the road from me. The network is rock solid and goes down less than Comcast. I’m 10ms away from the nearest Google PoP. Everything on the network is solar-first. These WISPs are out there and they make the decision to move to the country at lot easier. Keep an eye out! I’m out in Colorado- Email me if you want to know where to look around here for good internet in a rural area.
- FpUser 7y ago
  Among the other things we do - we produce long 4K videos with production quality that we have to transfer elsewhere using the Internet. Traffic wise it dwarfs our programming needs and everything else and not much I can do about it.
battery_cowboy 7y ago
Yep, if I can pay a few thousand less for my home each month in a rural area vs. a big city with good internet and still develop software from home on a good connection, I'll pay several hundred bucks, even a thousand bucks maybe, a month for space internet if I had to.

by FpUser 7y ago

leesalminen 7y ago

FWIW, I’m founder and CTO of a SaaS company and moved from an apartment in the city with symmetric gigabit out to the country with a 20/10 connection. It definitely was an impactful change for us at first. I had to change some work workflows to do heavy network stuff on a remote machine. It took some time to refine and make (nearly) as efficient as doing it locally. I also had to sandbox all the streaming gadgets in the house and limit their bandwidth allowance. But, the key for me was to move to an area with a reputable, locally owned WISP. It took a couple years but I found it. My WISP is run by an ex-IBMer down the road from me. The network is rock solid and goes down less than Comcast. I’m 10ms away from the nearest Google PoP. Everything on the network is solar-first. These WISPs are out there and they make the decision to move to the country at lot easier. Keep an eye out! I’m out in Colorado- Email me if you want to know where to look around here for good internet in a rural area.

FpUser 7y ago
Among the other things we do - we produce long 4K videos with production quality that we have to transfer elsewhere using the Internet. Traffic wise it dwarfs our programming needs and everything else and not much I can do about it.

battery_cowboy 7y ago

Yep, if I can pay a few thousand less for my home each month in a rural area vs. a big city with good internet and still develop software from home on a good connection, I'll pay several hundred bucks, even a thousand bucks maybe, a month for space internet if I had to.