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Is there a router i can purchase just to pull in internet without having to pay for an install contract with like infinity or internet provider......the house im renting had free internet coming in some how with just a linksys router that worked through all devices...but now for some reason the signal isnt coming in..........hotspotting from phone is too slow.....
It sounds like you were getting the prior tenant's leftover service, until Comcast or whomever cut it off.
You only have two choices: to pirate-piggyback off of a neighbor's wifi if they are unwise enough to have low or no security, or hope you are close enough to a strong, public/open site to use it for your devices. It gets a bit tricky and expensive to pick up a wifi spot and rebroadcast it for your own devices, which is about the only way you can use a long-range or high-gain antenna.
If the router you had was wired to the wall, you shouldn't have to pay much of anything to continue the service. I just switched from telco-based ADSL (a hasty choice during a rushed move) to Xfinity. Since the cable was already here and I had a cable modem in my junk box, there were no installation costs. Buy your own modem (new or used) and that should be your only initial cost.
Both cost only $10/month more or less. There are other people who qualify, but that's the basics.
I signed up for ATT Access, but then got an offer for Xfinity Essentials, and it's faster for the same price. I learned that I can do everything I want, including streaming movies on my laptop, for only 10 - 15 mbps. You don't need super fast internet for most browsing or even streaming.
There used to be a time when you could get relatively slow but functional internet for $15-20/month. It seems like those options have dried up unless you’re grandfathered in. I guess with people dropping cable in droves they have to make up for lost revenue. I won’t be surprised if home internet eventually costs something like $100/month for the slowest speed. Cut cutter...well congrats - now pay us what you save on TV for internet.
Where I live houses are like a mile apart. So it is near impossible to steal anyone's wifi. The only way to get online here is to pay the phone company to use their landline.
We could drive half-hour into the city and park in a McD parking lot, or at the Walmart, both of them provide wifi to their parking lots. And their sites log you off every 30-minutes. So you end up spending a lot of time dealing with their site.
Small towns without McDs or Walmarts have fewer options.
There used to be a time when you could get relatively slow but functional internet for $15-20/month. It seems like those options have dried up unless you’re grandfathered in. I guess with people dropping cable in droves they have to make up for lost revenue. I won’t be surprised if home internet eventually costs something like $100/month for the slowest speed. Cut cutter...well congrats - now pay us what you save on TV for internet.
I don't think there's a lick of sense in this, other than the gist that consumer demand changes over time.
I haven't seen broadband of even the 3-6mpbs DSL level for less than about $35 for a long, long time, and it was only in the $20 range in denser city areas. Even decent dialup was around $30 until the desperation days of $10/month unlimited before it croaked.
Broadband access is a commodity that tends towards price points over technical matters - the providers look for an optimum number of users at the highest collective price, and deliver whatever level of services supports that cost for those users. That is, there's always a $40 or so option - it's just gotten faster and faster over the years. Within a certain range, it costs the provider no more to provide a wide range of speeds; convincing users they need much higher speeds is just free revenue.
If the droves cutting overpriced and bloated cable services have kicked the props out of loss-leader internet... oh, well. You can still go for the triple bundles with free HBO, you know.
... I haven't seen broadband of even the 3-6mpbs DSL level for less than about $35 for a long, long time, and it was only in the $20 range in denser city areas. Even decent dialup was around $30 until the desperation days of $10/month unlimited before it croaked.
We get 2mpbs 'dsl' for $30/month from our phone company.
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... there's always a $40 or so option - it's just gotten faster and faster over the years. Within a certain range, it costs the provider no more to provide a wide range of speeds;
Our other 'option' is to go with a satellite dish.
Our phone company needs to lay many miles of additional fiber before increasing speed becomes an option.
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... oh, well. You can still go for the triple bundles with free HBO, you know.
I think you need to live in a city first, that has cable. Before any bundles are available.
Is there a router i can purchase just to pull in internet without having to pay for an install contract with like infinity or internet provider......the house im renting had free internet coming in some how with just a linksys router that worked through all devices...but now for some reason the signal isnt coming in..........hotspotting from phone is too slow.....
Well you got the internet for free. Someone else was paying for it. Now you will have to pay for it. That is life. Sorry man. The free ride is over.
Get a library card and use the computers at the public library. Free.
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