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Only Cox at the most southern point of SoCal where I live. I have only one choice, other than satellite. We can get 940Mbps down/35Mbps up w/ 1.25TB cap and m

• clairity 6y ago
  do you have neighbors within ~100 ft? if so, why not share internet (and cost) with them? with that much bandwidth, you can split it 10 ways and not even notice. an smb-class wireless router will let you segment neighbors into their own isolated vlan, and with mesh/repeaters, you can cover a fairly large area.
  • sixdimensional 6y ago
    It's a good idea for higher density. I could probably reach two of my neighbors (two shared walls), but not more without better equipment. Actually, because of how our construction is, I could probably do a 3-way mesh router setup and put one node in each place. I had an acquaintance who wanted to start a company flashing a custom OpenWRT image onto Linksys routers, he added a little captive portal with billing through Stripe so he could collect the neighbor's portion. Your comment reminded me to go check and see if he ever decided to go through with it. I recall looking into this a long time ago, certainly could do it, but recall some terms and conditions that prohibited it maybe. The other thing is even with all that bandwidth, there is the 1.25TB monthly bandwidth cap, which is one way I think they limit scenarios like this. Good idea though thanks for suggesting it.