High Speed Internet in Fairbanks (Ester, North Pole: houses, live, move to)

[hc5831]

I work from home and need high speed internet to do so. My wife and I have been looking to move to Fairbanks for over a year now and are starting to get things in line.

How fair does HSI extend from Fairbanks?
Does North Pole, Fox and Ester have it?
How far down Chena Hot Springs Rd do people have it (Smallwood Trail)?
How about houses near Goldstream Rd (Leta St)?
How about near Tanana Valley State Forest (Frida Way)?
How about Farmers Loop?

I'm not expecting 5 MBS or anything. Just faster than dial up. 1 MBS would be plenty. Satelitte could work, but it is painfully show and the bandwidth caps are problematic.

Thanks

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by hc5831

I work from home and need high speed internet to do so. My wife and I have been looking to move to Fairbanks for over a year now and are starting to get things in line.

How fair does HSI extend from Fairbanks?
Does North Pole, Fox and Ester have it?
How far down Chena Hot Springs Rd do people have it (Smallwood Trail)?
How about houses near Goldstream Rd (Leta St)?
How about near Tanana Valley State Forest (Frida Way)?
How about Farmers Loop?

I'm not expecting 5 MBS or anything. Just faster than dial up. 1 MBS would be plenty. Satelitte could work, but it is painfully show and the bandwidth caps are problematic.

Thanks

Bandwidth caps on Hughesnet isn't bad, it is worse on ACS. When you exceed the limits, your computer will slow down to dial up speed for 24 hours, then speed back up, they don't charge you like the others do. Also if you download at night during off peak times, they don't count that as bandwidth used.

Don't deal with Starband other than when I replace them for the people that switched to Hughesnet. As long as you can see the sun at about 1130 AM and can point your outstreached are at it about a foot off the horizon pointing your fingers, you can get Satellite Internet where ever you are in the interior.

At Chena Hot Springs, they have about four Hughesnet systems installed for the complex and it works fine.

If you are running a business, instead of the resident 1 watt transmitter, you can get a 2 watt transmitter on a one meter dish that works really well and very fast.

[hc5831]

Thanks for the info. I'm a pretty heavy interest user with work and play. Over the last 4 months I've used 41 gb, 34 gb, 60 gb of bandwidth. As you can see, caps could be a problem.

[1stimestar]

Try Alaska Connect. If you are line of site, they are a great deal.

[pearlysweetcake]

High speed internet in Fairbanks is a sad, sad joke. I had 3Mbps DSL through ACS (which isn't capped, I dunno what the above poster is talking about, I had it maxed out almost constantly for a year) in Fox, but I know other people in Fox who can't get any wired connectivity. Now I live at the bottom of Murphy Dome (literally 10 minutes away from UAF which has the fastest internet connection in the state) and can't get anything (including AC Wireless/Alasconnect, their tower in the Ester area is full and they won't be accepting new customers for it until October when they are due to upgrade it) except satellite (ACS has DSL in the area but my local DSLAM is full and they have no plans to upgrade it). I would bite the bullet and get HughesNet (everyone I've talked to there is incredibly helpful and after being stuck with dial-up I would pay ANYTHING right now) except they require a 2 year contract and I am hopeful that something will become available in the next 2 years.

Why yes, I am just a bit bitter