Wireless internet

[jeepdriver]

Well to start this off, if you have cable or DSL......I envy you. With that said, Where I am in the good ole boondocks, Cable is unavailable ( but is hopefully coming soon ) and DSL is also unavailable. My only options are Dial-up, Satellite and Wireless. Well Ive been using Verizons Jetpack for about a year and it started off pretty rough, but with a booster and antennae on the house, and with verizon boosting their signal output at least thats what CSR told me, its finally gotten decent.

Heres my problem. Verizon no longer has the unlimited data plan. So Im having to make do with a 8gb a month plan. Its gotten tight a couple times towards the end of the month, but Ive noticed that even while 4boxing everquest it doesnt eat up alot of Gigs. My wifes school work on the other hand is a unsatisfiably greedy critter that devours bandwith. Does anyone know of any companies that operates off of verizon towers and signal that offer unlimited data or at least a more reasonable monthly tiered plan? 130 bucks for the line and 8 gigs makes me wish I had a pillow to bite, as that might help with the pain...but I doubt it.

[F9thRet]

I've been using Exede 25 gig for about a year now, before that Wildblue. It works well in my area, but if you look into it, make sure you are on a 12 mb spotbeam.

I'm in Oklahoma btw, so I have no idea about Georgia.

[Starbuck_Jones]

The ISP I use is called Safelink. They are a wireless broadband company here in southern Idaho. We have a flat diamond looking plate on the side of the house and I'm not sure if it's radio or microwave. (depends on who you're talking to with support). It points across the canyon to a receiver on the edge. I have 5 down and 2 up; the same I had with cable back in town. When it all works it's great. I can't tell the difference between wireless or wired when playing games.

However this company is really hard to get to fix their scat when it breaks. It took me a month to get them to fix two of their towers after calling them every other day. I suspect this company does not own the "backhaul" network, just the end-user installs. Even when you show them the hard proof that a tower is failing, they won't admit it.

I've been with them now for about 2.5 years and three times the towers have broken. I would change if I could, but they are the only broadband solution I have living inside the Snake River Canyon.

We have a 150gig cap per month then get throttled. It's pretty easy to say under this with all of the twitch.tv and netflix I use. It takes some pretty hard core netflix binge to go over this.

[Bradster]

I do have a recommendation for you in terms of your Wireless woes with the unlimited access plan. If you have a unlimited plan for your phone you can use it as a hot spot. I took a break from my field and did Over the road trucking for a while, wanted to have internet on the road. I saw the aircard and the limitations with that. I also had a Iphone with unlimited internet, however if you wished to tether it, it was a added $10 charge and you only got two gigs.

So what I did was jail break the Iphone to teather it myself for free, and it used the data from the phones unlimited plan. Perhaps you can do something like that?

What about Dish's?
In 2001 high speed internet still wasn't available for where I was living for a time. So I purchased a DirectPC dish. I wanted to share that experience with you, in case you have thought about going that direction.

Again this was back in 2001, things may have changed quite a lot! But here's my experience.

$75 monthly cost
114MB download limit a day
Basically what happens is if you perform say a Windows update, mid way through you reach your 114MB cap which is referred to Fair use Policy. Your connection is then scaled down to 56k. However it was more like 28.8.

On-line gaming ping is so bad it's unplayable. I'd use dial-up to game, much much better compared sadly.

A friend and I both bought them and installed them. I disconnected mine and went back to dial up in three months, he lasted about 5 months.

If your just surfing the internet, might be a good fit. If you want to watch more then, say 4 short youtube videos, not a good fit.