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My rural cabin has access to: 1. 25/2 DSL for $140/month (12 month contract with $40/mo seasonal disconnect) 2. 5G (60/0.03 which was 100/20 last summer until
by garciasn 1y ago
My rural cabin has access to:
1. 25/2 DSL for $140/month (12 month contract with $40/mo seasonal disconnect)
2. 5G (60/0.03 which was 100/20 last summer until the nearby tower became overloaded).
3. LTE (see above) which I routinely get ~100/30 but which Verizon, at least, will not allow their boxes to use if it can connect via 5G, regardless of usability of the connection.
4. Fiber (100/100) at $89.95 (12m contract with $25/month seasonal disconnect). The fiber has higher speeds, but I didn't price them out. The costs were originally listed at $34.95 before they ran the lines, but they have upped them to $89.95 now that they are run to my lake home.
5. Starlink (supposedly 150/20 for Residential Lite which is available in my area) at $80/month on a month-to-month with purchase of a dish (I got mine refurbished for $135). I am routinely seeing ~400/40 with 25ms ping even though I shouldn't be. That said, the speeds are more variable (low as 120/7).
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I would LOVE for there to be reasonably priced and very stable Internet for month-to-month, but there just isn't except for Starlink--at this point.
- nullc 1y agoI am doubting the level of rural that has that level of connectivity. Your options there are far better than what I had living adj to downtown mountainview not so many years ago.
- garciasn 1y agoIt's in Central MN. It is 11 miles, straight line, from a town of 2200 and 15 miles from a town of 4400. The closest town is 8 miles as the crow flies of 700 and only has a gas station and a couple of bars. There's a bar and volunteer fire department 4 miles as the crow flies that has a population of 48. Believe me: this is rural. Until investment from the federal government and/or forced lower-bound limits on 'broadband' back about 6 years ago, the only option was 768/300 DSL.
- addaon 1y agoI'm in a small town (5000 people) on the Utah/Arizona border. The internet options are better, cheaper, and more reliable than I had in old town Mountain View, Palo Alto, or Sunnyvale. I go with the symmetric 1 gig with static IP, but symmetric 8 gig is an option as well. Silicon Valley's home internet options just suck.
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- lenzm 1y agoThe infrastructure has to be maintained year round, not just the summer months when lake houses are full. I don't think it's reasonable to expect affordable month-to-month pricing.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoMy cabin (I don't live there full time currently) has starlink's $10/month plan where you pay by the gigabyte. LTE isn't even an option because the topography kills terrestrial radio. Starlink completely changed rural internet. It's revolutionary.
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- TinkersW 1y agoRural areas don't have anywhere near that many options. DSL, fiber? Those do not exist if you are actually rural.
- garciasn 1y agoI explained below how it is defined by me as rural; but, yes, it's rural. In fact, my primary home JUST HAD FIBER RUN in my neighborhood last month and I get 1 bar of VZW. So; if anything, rural is ahead of major metro areas (my suburb of Minneapolis/St Paul has just under 90K residents). In fact, DSL from CenturyLink or whatever they call themselves today is 6mbit.
- thesuitonym 1y agoI don't know how you think $89.95 for 100/100 fiber isn't reasonable, unless you're the type of person who believes the introductory price at comcast is the real price.
- wpm 1y agoI pay 2/3rds of that for 10x the speed. 100/100 fiber is not that great.
- BenjiWiebe 1y agoWe pay 2/3rds of that for 15/3 WISP service with variable latency and common outages. That's a great price!
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- LorenDB 1y agoI know a guy who lives in rural West Virginia. He has fiber to his home, but the top speed is (IIRC) 10 Mbps down.
- rkomorn 1y agoIs it like... cotton fiber?