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hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

General consensus from people I've talked to with it is.. exactly what you'd expect, really. The bandwidth is ok, but the latency is rear end and the cost absurd.

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hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

DesperateDan posted:

I dont know about satellite stuff, but I have looked a few times at long range wifi setups- 3/4g is too spotty to be reliable where I farm but I'm within a mile or two of my mother in laws place which has a reasonable connection- it's pretty cheap and easy if you can stick up a pole at each end with directional antenna with line of sight, homebuilt solutions seem to be able to reach several miles.

Yeah, if this option is available to you it definitely seems like it's the way to go.

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

A slightly more refined solution is available in some places, where instead of making a friend and piggybacking off their wifi, it's an ISP with a dish on a tower on a hill and you pay them for service and equipment setup.

Googling for 'fixed wireless' should turn up some information.

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