Texas Home Internet Service in Rural Areas

Mary - What services are your neighbors nearby using for Internet, television and landline? Have you asked?

WE are hermits and stay to ourself. We only have a few neighbors, of whom I know none. Most are behind trees. Of what I can see when we are in the car it looks like satalite and Radio like what I have now.

I have used Nextlink internet for about 5 yrs. and am very happy with it. It might be available in your area, it is line of sight wireless and not affected by weather or clouds. Reasonable price and unlimited data.

http://nextlinkinternet.com/about/service-area/

This is like what we have now. The towers are so full in our area. The service goes in and out a lot because of traffic. We were hoping to get away from line of sight. It is looking like we might have to go with one though. I will look at Nextlink. Thanks

I looked at the AT&T plan. It has unlimited but only 15gb hotspot.
When you connect to tv with hdmi is this considered using a hotspot? We use Netflix and HBO a lot.

No it is not considered hotspot as you are actually streaming to the phone.Also if you have direct tv the data used is not counted .

New York Times:

SpaceX Delays Launch of Starlink Orbital Internet Satellites

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/science/spacex-launch.htm...

We have dish. It is satalite, we seldom use their data. We use HBO and Netflix through Roku. We sometimes select Netflix from the Dish remote. I don't know if this goes through satalite or data.

Something to maybe look forward to.

I have been on phone and internet for the last 7 days trying to find something that will work for us.
I tried the Connected Car. No go.

Yesterday we had Rise Broadband installed. It is a radio direct sight system like we had with OneSource.
After installing the installer could not get speeds like is should be. We are taking the 50mgb speed unlimited data. He said he could pull 70mgb on our roof. In the house the speeds averged from 4 to 7. He said if it would go to 8 we could stream ok. I said I am not paying for 8. He then talked to someone in the office and they said they would turn in a trouble ticket.
Install and trouble ticket on the same day is not a good sign.

After he left I have been working with it. I changed out the Cat 5e cable he installed to a Cat 6 1T speed. This helped on my direct connected laptop. I can now get 25 to 40 speeds.
The wifi is not that great. I get about 9. It looks like my Netgear Kighthawk r7000 wifi is throttling my speeds. I surfed and found it could be interference, my router or maybe we need a wifi extender (most of our wifi is in the same room as the router.)

This is where we stand now. Will see what happens but at least I will have internet.
Thanks to all of you for your help and suggestions. It is so nice to have all of you.
Thanks Mary

I logged in to my router. I started with the first tab.
I looked at each setting and if I didn't know what it did I searched on Google.
I came to 20/40 MHz Coexistence. It was checked. I search for what this is and this is what I read.

"By default, 20/40 MHz Coexistence is enabled on your NETGEAR router to avoid interference between wireless networks. You can disable this feature to help your devices connect at the maximum supported wireless speed."

I unchecked this option. Rebooted the router and now I have an average around and above 50mgh speed on my wireless tablets and laptop.

This option was only on the 2.4mgh so I have to connect each device to the 2.4mgh connection as the 5G is still 12mgh to 14mgh speed. Don't know why but as long as I can get the good speed on the 2.4mgh I am good to go. I read that my router can be attached to 64 devices. 32 on each mgh. I have a lot connected, 9 or 10, so when the family comes they should still be able to connect to the good speed. It is unlimited.

Maybe now I can rest my brain. It has had a workout.

Thanks again for all of you being here.
Mary

We had Dish and Hughes for years, cost a fortune and as stated before latency was so bad things like OOMA would not work

I chated a few days before I order and received a card in the mail with a special and I received my 1st month free.
They also had a special on the 50mgh speed and before tax it is $60. Not too bad for being in a rural area.

Mary - Your brain is in top-notch condition...and better than most people's brain!

In mid 70's and my husband sometimes questions my brain.
We were at Jack in the Box the other day and I asked for a
Jr. Beacon Cheeseburger and told the waitress to cut the Beacon.
My husband is still questioning my reason for that.

Uh, okay. I may have to try that! Did Jack in the Box's beacon have a crispy, salty taste like regular bacon does?