You really know how to make a guy feel inadequate. In the mountains where I live the best speed you can get, no matter what you are willing to pay, is 3.5mbps on old copper phone line. For 20 bucks a month, so not all bad. Maybe one day fios will be an option. If more than about 100 people ever live up here.The crazy part is, I have Verizon wanting to put a cell tower on my property. Maybe when they do, I will get 4 g and its high speed internet.
I live in the mountains also but I pay $135 a year, so check around. AT&T said that I was too far away to ever get service and still says that today even though my provider uses the AT&T hub because it's the only one available. I'm on the old line and it's only rated at 1.5mbps and I pull 1.3 usually
I've been At&T's farthest away customer for years and well beyond the distance limit that they offer. lolYou should check satellite internet.. Its available most anywhere.. you're going to pay for it but its substantially faster than thatI live in the mountains also but I pay $135 a year, so check around. AT&T said that I was too far away to ever get service and still says that today even though my provider uses the AT&T hub because it's the only one available. I'm on the old line and it's only rated at 1.5mbps and I pull 1.3 usually
I did have Hughes net years ago before I could get DSL but they kept shutting me down because I had a souped up gaming pc back then that I modified the speed settings on. They guaranteed me as much speed as I could take but that was a lie... lol. Their main computer kept shutting me down for going to fast, when in actuality, I was able to receive a lot faster then they will willing to transmit it to me for the high price I was paying back when Napster was the rage... There main pc would flag my system and lock it down to about 20kpbs when I could get 70+ on single line dial up. I actually had shotgun modems for years with dual phone lines that gave me 150k because my provider didn't charge me for needing any service help. So I called Hughes up when their tech's couldn't get their pc to release the flag on my system and had them come take their dishes, tv satellite system and everything back. If you are into gaming, there's too much lag to even start playing games with a satellite system. DSL even though slow for my family needs beats satellite out the door.
I had trouble with AT&T's latency at 12Mbps, bandwidth and latency don't directly correlate. Satelite is not a perfect choice, I just wanted to make sure you know its an option. I'm fortunate in I live in a metro area. We have 100Mb down and 15 up, sadly, the 1Gbps has launched but my house isn't in the right spot =(
I am the last house on the line also. Sometimes it seems like my old 56k modem was faster. The only other option I have is satellite internet, but it has too much latency, a 5 gig cap, and is way to expensive. Also, it is not substantially faster than the Verizon. Sigh. One of the penalties of living remote, I guess.I live in the mountains also but I pay $135 a year, so check around. AT&T said that I was too far away to ever get service and still says that today even though my provider uses the AT&T hub because it's the only one available. I'm on the old line and it's only rated at 1.5mbps and I pull 1.3 usually
Lucky you. Here in Australia I am paying $60 PER MONTH for my ADSL2 home internet :-/
