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LTE in most places - we get 80Mbs down and 30 up here, and we are a long way from anywhere - having to use our own mast on a hilltop to get a signal.
by madaxe_again 6y ago
LTE in most places - we get 80Mbs down and 30 up here, and we are a long way from anywhere - having to use our own mast on a hilltop to get a signal.
- throwawaygulf 6y agoLTE is limited to 21GB of higher speed transfer a month, at which point you get rate limited down to 2Mbps down and .5Mbps up. Can't have Zoom calls on that garbage.
- Shared404 6y agoWould that not be dependent on the carrier?
- throwawaygulf 6y agoIndeed. Last time I was forced on LTE in home at the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.
- p_l 6y agoYou don't know what kind of contracts are available for the GP. In EU, getting a lot more is usually not a problem
- throwawaygulf 6y agoNot sure about the EU, but last time I was forced on LTE in home at the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.
- burntwater 6y agoCellular plans from the major US carriers change every couple months. Throw in all the resellers and you have new plans every week. Describing a cellular plan from 5 years ago is like talking about a 286.
- p_l 6y agoIn addition to plans changing all the time... US plans have a tendency to be much worse than EU due to lower competition
- madaxe_again 6y agoYeah, I'm in Portugal, and we pay €30 a month for unlimited (actually unlimited - no FUP or anything) data. The ISP does do some traffic shaping, so they'll throttle video streaming at peak hours, but a €1 a month VPN busts around that no problem.
- throwaway3699 6y agoI would say at least 1 TB minimum for a home data plan, imo. I've used that much in a month just on Steam games, and each member of a family drives that up very linearly. Any less and you start "rationing" out something fundamentally unlimited.
- ghaff 6y agoIf you don't have broadband, today, you pretty much have to make compromises. You don't play Steam games and you don't stream much video--probably get DirectTV. Cell is one option in many places. Satellite is another. Neither are great but that's sort of where you are until maybe Starlink arrives.
- VBprogrammer 6y agoIf you are going to spend hours playing online games / watching netflix then I can't imagine why you wouldn't just stay comfortable in the city or the suburbs. Living off grid you are going to spend a lot of your free time just living. If you've ever camped in a tent it's probably not dissimilar, by the time you've made breakfast and cleaned up afterwards its almost time to think about lunch, or at least it can feel that way.
- throwawaygulf 6y agoThe last time I was forced on LTE at home in the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.
- burntwater 6y agoI used 150GB of LTE in the past three days and still going strong.