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Old 05-12-2020, 12:14 PM
 
Location: Idaho
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The consensus here is that Verizon provides the "best" cellular service. A bit less popular is AT&T. This is on the Rathdrum Prairie. I have lost signal at times when wandering in the local mountains, but that's normal.
Thank you for the input!
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:17 AM
 
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The consensus here is that Verizon provides the "best" cellular service. A bit less popular is AT&T. This is on the Rathdrum Prairie. I have lost signal at times when wandering in the local mountains, but that's normal.

Right--"best" is relative! Over on the NE side of Lake Pend Oreille you'll be lucky to find a spot with 3 bars (cell phone bars! ). We thought of calling our place in Clark Fork the One Bar Ranch...
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Old 05-17-2020, 04:40 PM
 
Location: Upstate SC
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Right--"best" is relative! Over on the NE side of Lake Pend Oreille you'll be lucky to find a spot with 3 bars (cell phone bars! ). We thought of calling our place in Clark Fork the One Bar Ranch...

What service do you have? We're still looking at moving out that way, and have an off-grid solar power house in the hills above Clark Fork we might consider. Satellite internet would probably be the only option for it, or a hot spot maybe if cell service was good enough. Wife has a small crafter business she started and needs some sort of internet to operate.
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Old 05-18-2020, 12:19 AM
 
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What service do you have? We're still looking at moving out that way, and have an off-grid solar power house in the hills above Clark Fork we might consider. Satellite internet would probably be the only option for it, or a hot spot maybe if cell service was good enough. Wife has a small crafter business she started and needs some sort of internet to operate.

Keep in mind that we don't live on our property year-round yet, but we have solar and a generator at the house. I'd say that solar in the summer is fine, but I wouldn't rely on it in winter. We haven't come up with an Internet solution yet, mainly because we haven't been desperate for one, being on vacation. Plugging into the 4G close to Sandpoint has been good enough, 2-3 times a week, just to catch up with info and e-mails. But last summer I sat at the Clark Fork library for hours on end, working on my laptop, because I had a deadline, and the library WiFi was the only easy solution. Our neighbor in CF (who has since moved) had WiFi at his house, via satellite, so that is definitely an option which we will explore, maybe sooner rather than later.

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Old 07-16-2020, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Finally in N Idaho!
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I live on 5 acres in the area of Ramsey/Garwood and have Spectrum 1gig internet. $80/month.
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Old 07-16-2020, 08:44 PM
 
Location: North Idaho
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I live on 5 acres in the area of Ramsey/Garwood and have Spectrum 1gig internet. $80/month.
Wow, that’s awesome. May I ask what the name of the ISP is and if there are any other ISPs with decent broadband speeds in that area?
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Old 07-17-2020, 03:10 PM
 
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How about a cable network?
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Old 07-18-2020, 07:55 AM
 
Location: North Idaho
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How about a cable network?
Up here cable is only available "in town," not in the more rural areas of the panhandle.

A company called Ziply recently purchased the rural telephone networks owned by Frontier, and they are making some pretty bold claims about installing fiber in a lot of places. Time will tell whether that actually includes rural areas outside the towns.

Dave
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Old 07-19-2020, 02:46 AM
 
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Up here cable is only available "in town," not in the more rural areas of the panhandle.

A company called Ziply recently purchased the rural telephone networks owned by Frontier, and they are making some pretty bold claims about installing fiber in a lot of places. Time will tell whether that actually includes rural areas outside the towns.

Dave
Thank you.
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Old 07-19-2020, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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Up here cable is only available "in town," not in the more rural areas of the panhandle.

A company called Ziply recently purchased the rural telephone networks owned by Frontier, and they are making some pretty bold claims about installing fiber in a lot of places. Time will tell whether that actually includes rural areas outside the towns.

Dave
Even if Frontier does lay some cable, it will only be where the most population is living.
2 customers in a mile of line makes no profit for years to come when the same mile of cable can serve 200 customers in a suburb.

The ROI just isn't there for those companies when there are only a few possible customers who are scattered out over long distances.

The costs stack up fast when the terrain is difficult for cable laying too. It's much easier and less expensive to lay cable where city service sewer and water lines have already been dug.

However, if a customer agrees to foot the bill, a company will lay cable about any place it can be laid.

And there are a few major trunk cable lines that are laid in unexpected places. If a rural home happens to be close to one of those lines, footing the bill might not be so expensive.
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