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I was having issues recently with my internet setup using a reseller of ATT 4g service. I was barely getting one bar. I thought it had to do with the leaves dropping from the trees but it turns out my amplifier was bad. I just installed a new one (Surecall Home fusion 4) and now get five bars LTE service. It is actually BETTER than my old amplifiers performance when it was new. Happy camper here.
BTW- I use "Dynami" internet which is a resller of AT&T mobile data services. 100 bucks a month for "unlimited" internet. I put unlimited in quotation marks because if you exceed 1TB of data per month they will ask you to buy a second account. I couldn't imagine using that much data.
In my town we have 'dsl' on twisted-wire pairs that give us 2.0Mbps down and 0.3Mbps up.
There is no cable company in our town.
I'm sure that since they're the only option, they could advertise their actual throughput and still have customers. Sadly, they probably advertise at "Up to 12 Mbps..."
I'm sure that since they're the only option, they could advertise their actual throughput and still have customers. Sadly, they probably advertise at "Up to 12 Mbps..."
M'eh, I'm fortunate enough to be on the highway between towns and have coax/cable... it's rare to not EXCEED the speeds I'm paying for. Meaning I don't think I've ever tested and gotten less than advertised speeds.. to the point where I don't bother testing anymore. My folks have fiber to their home, again luck that it runs up the highway and they put in a line before that highway section was run, they also get over their "package" speeds all the time.
Not all companies are scum, and even those that are scum in some places (I'm on Charter) aren't in others.
Being rural in eastern CA we were blessed by that socialist (just kidding) Obama. So he provided funding to Comcast to install cable in our area. I’m on the slowest plan @35mgps. We also have Verizon data that runs 10-15 megs.
I think using your phone provider for internet data is a good option if the only other option is dial-up.
M'eh, I'm fortunate enough to be on the highway between towns and have coax/cable... it's rare to not EXCEED the speeds I'm paying for. Meaning I don't think I've ever tested and gotten less than advertised speeds.. to the point where I don't bother testing anymore. My folks have fiber to their home, again luck that it runs up the highway and they put in a line before that highway section was run, they also get over their "package" speeds all the time.
Not all companies are scum, and even those that are scum in some places (I'm on Charter) aren't in others.
Yes, within city limits, my advertised plan is 50/10 but I'm regularly 55/12.
A friend of mine in high school had parents who thought it would be a great idea to live smack in the middle of their 100-acre tract. This put the dwelling about 0.8 miles from the paved road. Great, but this meant that a single buried line had to reach and "do as well as it could" without any repeaters installed by BellSouth.
The top plan offered was 6 Mbps, but they were lucky if it ran at half that on a good day. If I remember correctly, the only service that could push that length was an old ADSL card from the BellSouth FastAccess days. You could not theoretically sign up for uVerse - which was VDSL2+ (lowest speed was much higher, bit test would fail and they'd have to cancel the order) because the shorter max distance for the higher speeds would simply not work.
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