Moto-Brian Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 So, we are out in the country and cannot access Road Runner and Time Warner anymore. Thus, I need internet. I have heard to stay away from Direct TV's stuff as it is limited and will max out quickly. I also have heard decent things about the Verizon WiFi mobile.I wanted to ask the panel as to what their thoughts were. Need to do a lot of internet and emailing and want speed. I have the Turbo Road Runner and am supposedly getting 54 mbs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JStump Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 Do not do the mobile hot spot unless you can get 4g service because you will hit the cap of 5gigs and pay out the ass! 4g is unlimited though. See if you can get windstream, it's pretty good and you can get up to 20mb/s depending on the area you live in. Chances are you will be able to get them too because it is dsl not cable so they have a larger foot print. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapesmuggler27 Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 Don't know if you can get insight out there but its actually really good service Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifty Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 I'm in the same shape as you and the only option I have is zoomtown thru Cincy Bell. It's not great but it beats the hell out of dial up lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Ive used Verizon's wireless hotspot for years with no probs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Do not do the mobile hot spot unless you can get 4g service because you will hit the cap of 5gigs and pay out the ass! 4g is unlimited though. See if you can get windstream, it's pretty good and you can get up to 20mb/s depending on the area you live in. Chances are you will be able to get them too because it is dsl not cable so they have a larger foot print.Verizon is limited to 5G or 10G depending on plan. $10/g over that. According to my router I burn up 35G per month = $330/mo internet if I went with Verizon 4G.I use a local wireless provider called NexGenAccess. It's a small operation so recovering from storm damage outages can take a day or so, but it's $37/mo for 2Meg when my only other choices are 3G (slower) 4G (capped), dialup (yeah,right) and satellite (BTDT, pingtime sucks). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Nobody who has 4G service where I live also has unlimited data. 10G limits don't reflect the reality of home users, streaming video etc. If you run Verizon 4G at full speed (18Mb/s) constantly you'll burn up 8.1G in an hour. use up your 10G allowance in 74 minutes. If you continue at full speed constantly then your overage charges will be $64,000. I have remotely logged in to my home cctv from work (16 channels full motion video) and accidentally left it running when I went home for the weekend. 3 days later I burned up enough data that it would have been about $6k of overage if I had been on verizon. Still want limited 4G? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optimoprime Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 (edited) 4g from verizon works depending on what your doing. if you are streaming video its not good solution. if your just websurfing and paying bills it great option. just because it didnt work for your situation does mean its shit. just means its not good option for YOUedit: overage charge its $10 a gig over. so its not totally unreasonable if you do stumble over your limit Edited September 5, 2011 by optimoprime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Just cuz you stream porn non stop doesnt mean everybody else does. Ive had it for 6years and yet to go over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblosser Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 I was out at Todd's 2 months ago to fix up a Windows problem they were having, and the performance of that Internet connection was perfectly good for what most people are going to do.It connected right away, no hiccups, and unless you would want to have multiple torrent streams going while streaming Netflix you'd be more than happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasttuna Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Have my M&D on VZW Mifi option for past 2 years... 3G/4G with 5GB plan is good for web surfing and general email. If you're doing large downloads, many PC builds w/ updates, or anything streaming... you're going to hit monthy quota quickly as others have stated.My folks have 2 laptops connected and they consume around 3-4GB per month (facebook, email, and basic web surfing).At work, I have 6,500 field staff between VZW, Sprint, and AT&T data services. These folks VPN from Windows PC's for email and corporate web applications (with little streaming)... we keep most folks on the 5-6GB plans to minimize data overages.Another wireless broadband option around Ohio may be Clearwire depending on location. http://www.clearwire.com/ Not sure about data limits, etc. I know the service is available around Columbus area but not sure how rural it extends... website has maps.Sorry to say, I don't know of any wide area wireless broadband solutions that don't limit data usage these days... between Netflix and Youtube, unlimited wireless options are now gone as these providers are trying to protect their networks from bandwidth hogs that consume a lot of streaming content. Just the way it is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2talltim Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Just Move..lol..I love my RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 4g from verizon works depending on what your doing. if you are streaming video its not good solution. if your just websurfing and paying bills it great option. just because it didnt work for your situation does mean its shit. just means its not good option for YOUedit: overage charge its $10 a gig over. so its not totally unreasonable if you do stumble over your limit$10 a gig? Yeah, Once you've hit your limit then the next time you download a DVD it costs you $50. I don't think most people have the slightest clue how much data they download in a month. I had to reflash an old wrt-54g router wtih dd-wrt to get monthly usage stats which is how I know I run between 30 and 40 Gb a month. That's $300-400 per month.Unless you know how much data you use you'd be ill-advised to sign up for a hard limit. That would be like buying a bike but not knowing how much you're gonna pay for it until the check clears (or doesn't). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Just cuz you stream porn non stop doesnt mean everybody else does. Ive had it for 6years and yet to go over. You've have 4g for 6 years? Sweeeeeet.Wait, wait, let me munge someone else's quote for this...just because it DID work for your situation does mean its NOT shit. just means its a good option for YOU(My wife is in IT and works from home, she has rdp, file shares and other crap running over the VPN all day long) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbrbrent Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Hughes net satellite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Hughes net satelliteWorks ok for browsing if you use their proxy that downloads all the components of your chosen website to their servers then sends it to you in one package. Otherwise you're stuck with the 2 second ping time that makes online gaming or "chatty" protocols like rdp, netbios impossible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-flores Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 we have clearwire at my place and it works pretty great not gunna lie. i know some people who have had trouble with it though. we are not far from a cell tower that is used by them though so we always have full signal strength. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Ive used Verizon's wireless hotspot for years with no probsJust cuz you stream porn non stop doesnt mean everybody else does. Ive had it for 6years and yet to go over. You've have 4g for 6 years? Sweeeeeet. reading comprehension owned you. I never said a thing about 4g VZW has had wireless internet for years and as I said Ive had it for 6 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 reading comprehension owned you. I never said a thing about 4g VZW has had wireless internet for years and as I said Ive had it for 6 years.Chill out. I was talking about 4g before you butted in. Levity is not your style? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Nope my style is Ethugin, you musta missed the memo. And I didnt butt in you did, recheck who posted first homie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Ive used Verizon's wireless hotspot for years with no probsSame thing I just did since I cant get wired here either.. Using a Verizon mifi and can get 4G LTE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 I've never got 4g out here its 3 but still plenty fast and never has probs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buxnut Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 I live in the sticks and have frontier DSL. its only 3 meg down and 768k up (used to be 768k down and that SUCKED), but it works great for me. I can RDP into my desktop at the office via a Citrix connection all day with no issuses. netflix streams great too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVTPilot Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 I have Windstream like someone else mentioned earlier, and in 7 years have never had an outage. I VPN and run RDP sessions from home on servers at work and it's served me well in that area. My $.02, FWIW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mello dude Posted September 5, 2011 Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Been living with ATT DSL 6meg and gawd forbid if you need service. So RR is da bomb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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