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Your parents might consider Starlink. My mother is in a similar situation. Way out in the countryside with only very slow DSL available. Even the two WISP (Wire
by graton 5y ago
Your parents might consider Starlink. My mother is in a similar situation. Way out in the countryside with only very slow DSL available. Even the two WISP (Wireless ISP) providers did not have towers in line-of-sight of her property (darn trees).
She got Starlink and now is getting about 80Mbps down and 40Mbps up.
It is a bit pricey at $550 for the unit delivered and $99 a month. But when you don't have any other realistic options...
- cronix 5y agoAnd it's portable. I take mine camping in the National Forests in Oregon, far away from any sort of cell signal (or data for that matter). I love how fast it is to set up and automatically positions itself to get a signal lock (as opposed to having to manually point it at the right spot like most other satellite tv/internet dishes). I've done a few 4k youtube livestreams with it. Something that would be impossible otherwise without a tv satellite truck.
- caymanjim 5y ago> I take mine camping in the National Forests in Oregon How do you do this? Starlink is location-locked at the moment. They're awaiting FCC approval for fully-mobile use, and other people have reported that they can't even get service in a fixed location that's more than a few miles from their registered service address.
- wildrhythms 5y agoThe last time I checked (roughly 2 months ago) Starlink is not available yet anywhere in the state of West Virginia. Has this changed?
- InitialBP 5y agoI signed my parents up for the Beta in WV sometime in 2021 (I don't remember exactly when, and did not have any issues.)