Rural fixed wireless internet

[cgarr]

I’m having a hell of a time trying to figure this out. Just bought a cabin in mid Michigan area, about 12 miles west of Mt Pleasant where CMU is located. At my cabin I can pull in the 5Ge tower good enough to stream my Xfinity television on my iPad.

When I search home base wireless and put in the address for availability they say it’s not available in my area! Well what the hell that’s why I want rural internet which I kind of already get through my damn phone. I just want a base station with wifi so I can connect my smart TVs etc to it.

What am I missing here?

Craig




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[Ayles]

Id look into this for a remote cabin:

https://www.starlink.com/

[Bugsinrugs]

Nice place.

[Bigtoe32067]

Beautiful cabin

[cgarr]

I did buy a weboost to pull in the cell signal better for our phones I’ll install that up on the tv antenna already on the roof for now and see how that works




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[cgarr]

We really enjoy the place, hope to slowly get it ready to maybe retire up there in 8 or 10 years, in the meantime maybe do a little farming on the 12 acres, or see if I can squeeze in a 1400’ runway to get the planes in lol







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[greglepore]

https://cyberonic.com/
we're looking into this for my s/o's country house. She has Viasat now and it sucks - out whenever there's cloud cover. She has decent cell service. Cyberonic resells cellular for internet use, looks like enough capacity for domestic use.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by cgarr

We really enjoy the place, hope to slowly get it ready to maybe retire up there in 8 or 10 years, in the meantime maybe do a little farming on the 12 acres, or see if I can squeeze in a 1400’ runway to get the planes in lol

That's really horrible! I don't know how you guys can stand it.

The fall colors are really amazing. I don't think we had a lot of fall colors when I lived in Japan because there weren't many deciduous trees. And while there may have been some when I lived in NoVA (Woodbridge, VA), it was essentially a suburb town for DC, so lots of homes and townhomes, and I was in HS, so had anything else on my mind other than fall colors. The rest of my life has been in Florida or Houston, so no fall colors to speak of in either of those spots.

[Seahawk]

Beautiful place!

I do a combination of satellite internet and Verizon via my phone. Both are sub optimum.

I am looking at Ubifi: https://www.ubifi.net/

I will follow this thread!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Beautiful place!

I do a combination of satellite internet and Verizon via my phone. Both are sub optimum.

I am looking at Ubifi: https://www.ubifi.net/

I will follow this thread!

If our country place goes through (no reason to think it won't, but don't want to tempt fate), I'm probably going to need something too, hopefully that's good enough that I can work from home which probably wouldn't be normal (geo) satellite (like Hughs). I'm curious about Starlink since the latency should be tolerable compared to normal geostationary satellite. I keep forgetting to check my cell access when I'm out there. I think it should be decent, but probably not remotely as fast as it is here in the city.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by masraum

If our country place goes through (no reason to think it won't, but don't want to tempt fate), I'm probably going to need something too, hopefully that's good enough that I can work from home which probably wouldn't be normal (geo) satellite (like Hughs).

I work from home 3/4 days a week - it is workable with Hughes just not optimum. We have developed workarounds so I am not holding things up. I don't ever host meetings, for instance - our Ops person in Las Vegas does, nor do I broadcast my mug during meetings...a good thing

I am looking at the DirecTV internet as well since I have their basic sat TV package.

The Verizon 4G hot spot on my phone works great but I run through the allowable download g's quickly.

Let me know how Starlink works.

Thanks and I hope you get your place - another really near rural property.

[wdfifteen]

WOW! That's a great place. Just beautiful!

Do you have DSL available? I thought it would not be fast enough, but DSL and satellite were our only options out here. It's $85 a month, but it's fast enough that we can stream 2 movies at once.

We have Frontier, and they claim to have service in your area.

https://internet.frontier.com/local/michigan/mount-pleasant/

[masraum]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

WOW! That's a great place. Just beautiful!

Do you have DSL available? I thought it would not be fast enough, but DSL and satellite were our only options out here. It's $85 a month, but it's fast enough that we can stream 2 movies at once.

We have Frontier, and they claim to have service in your area.

https://internet.frontier.com/local/michigan/mount-pleasant/

DSL can be plenty fast depending upon how far you are from the source. As the distance goes up, the speed goes down. The distance my be greater if there's fiber involved, but my guess is that most rural locations won't be targets for fiber for a while. They are still rolling fiber out in cities and suburbs.

[cgarr]

The local phone company, Winn Telephone Co, does offer DSL and our place already has the wires/phone in place just not active. I will be checking with them about speeds, it might be enough to stream the television


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[spuggy]

Originally Posted by cgarr

I just want a base station with wifi so I can connect my smart TVs etc to it.

What am I missing here?

If you can use 5G at prices you can live with, search "mifi" to share 5G data over wifi. Everything from pocket dongles (so you don't have to hot-spot your phone) to access points/routers (some also with DSL/cable ports).

DSL will probably work out cheaper.

[9dreizig]

I got this service www.bixwireless.com
They use ATT LTE towers. I"m getting 27M download and 7M upload 400G data for $99 a month .. Great customer service so far love them

[daepp]

My daughter needs rural internet so I'm following this intently.

I saw the following article that looks interesting. I understand some up on the central coast here have done similarly with cooperatively owned line-of-sight towers. It can be expensive, but the more you can sign up the less so.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/rural-broadband-internet-covid-wireless-fcc-20200705.html

[Scott Douglas]

My brother is faced with this problem at his new place in Templeton.
He's working on a line-of-sight solution with his neighbor who has line-of-sight to the repeater.
I'm watching this thread for ideas to pass along to him.

[93nav]

Can you ask any neighbors what they are using? Some rural areas offer wireless from a tower. Needs to be line of sight though.

[red-beard]

If the cell service is good, you need a Netgear Modem.

This is what you want, but they said it would already be out. Still waiting. It is 5G, up to 100 Mbps.

https://www.netgear.com/home/products/mobile-broadband/mobilerouters/mr5200.aspx

We use the older 4G unit at our remote power plant.

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-LTE-Modem-Broadband-Connection/dp/B01N5ASNTE/ref=sr_1_3?crid=IICIWD2SWI0R&dchild=1&keywords=netgear+4g+lte+modem&qid=1604321958&sprefix=Netgear+4g%2Caps%2C250&sr=8-3

Add antenna

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DN3J03O/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Or better
https://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Wideband-Directional-700-2700-314411/dp/B00J14YEHQ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1Y1XEPKKFTW8D&dchild=1&keywords=4g+antenna+outdoor&qid=1604322071&sprefix=4g+ant%2Caps%2C230&sr=8-3