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| Topic: | Internet - Fast, reliable, in a remote location This thread has 6 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday August 9, 2012 at 19:27 |
tweeterguy Loyal Member |
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No cable available. DSL is max'd out at a whopping 1.5 Mbps. Tried 3G/4G modem in the past...slow, unreliable, reboot often; you know, about as reliable and fast as your cell phone. Same with satellite modem...unreliable, slow. What's the latest and greatest for remote locations in satellite modem technology?
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| Post 2 made on Thursday August 9, 2012 at 21:02 |
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Dsisystemsinc.com, the new wild blue sat Internet has speeds of 12 and 3
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| Post 3 made on Thursday August 9, 2012 at 21:08 |
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| Post 4 made on Friday August 10, 2012 at 01:21 |
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Where is the site located? The new higher speed wild blue type sat is only available in certain areas. Military grade satellite systems work well but can run $100 per MB of download speed
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| OP | Post 5 made on Friday August 10, 2012 at 10:27 |
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Thanks for the recommendations. Haven't looked into any yet as this was dropped on me yesterday. The site is in MT at 45.1498 North 109.4767 West. There eventually will be DSL but no cable. There is evidently a line of site wireless tower a couple miles away up on a ski mountain. I know nothing about this technology. All of our jobs have cable or fibre. Only once have we had a house with no service and that had to rely on 3G/4G modem. So I'm hoping they can come up with the most reliable and highest downstream solution as possible.
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| Post 6 made on Friday August 10, 2012 at 10:37 |
Look into WiMax (microwave link) to that tower, this is becoming a more popular option for remote links, and is much cheaper than pulling fiber. Satellite internet only as a last resort... higher bandwidth means you can chew through your monthly allowance in 2 hours of HD Netflix now instead of 2 days, then you get capped to 56k modem speeds for the rest of the month...
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| OP | Post 7 made on Friday August 10, 2012 at 17:05 |
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Thanks jweather...I don't currently know what's on the tower and what they provide. I'll have more in depth info I'm sure when I'm up there next week.
How has your experience with microwave been? I understand it can travel great lengths and at certain distances the bandwidth drops off. I'd like to see a minimum of 10 megabit to the premise with a consistent connection and no caps. Is that even remotely possible? I suppose it depends upon the distance and what type of backhaul they have...I'm guessing some of these guys are using microwave with a satellite backhaul?
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