Finally able to get a local line of sight WISP (wireless internet service provider) and get rid of HughesNet. When we first moved here they weren't taking new customers, not enough bandwidth and they didn't want to lower the quality of service to their existing customers. Saw the neighbor dismantling his Hughes dish the other day and found out we had local service out here. What a fuggin relief.
I hate big companies like Hughes, Dish, Direct, Comcast etc. Every survey done shows customer satisfaction lower than low.
We are getting a way better deal too. Service is so good I can now listen to the youtube videos folks put up, or a new video, and not have to play a game of solitaire while waiting for the video to load. And there's no limit on how many hours we can stream like there was with Hughes.
Best of all, less than 1/2 the cost for twice the service.....................and my money is staying and helping local folks.
Not here bro. Lot's of poor white folks, brown folks, and even a few black folks here like my neighbor who let me know service was available . Wish there were a program like the Rural Electrification Authority. We have service with an old electric co-op, cheapest rates in Cali and the best service anywhere. Sure would be smart out here in the boonies to do the same for other services like cell phones, internet, and even a medical co-op (think like a credit union only for medical) would be an improvement than dealing with companies that don't want to spend money out here because there's a whopping 2.3 people per square mile.
Maybe we need to get us a MT type politician to represent us.
I've had HughesNet for the past 18 months and hate it. Been looking for an alternative. Fiber Optic is all around me, even to places more back in the boonies that I am, but I don't have it. Found out that AT&T has a fixed wireless internet that has became available to me, or at least they say it is. 215 GB's a month for $40, 10 times my current allowance at half the price. I have them scheduled to come this Thursday to check and see if the signal is strong enough. I'll have to buy out my remaining months with Hughes, but what I'll save will more than make up for that.
After that, get yourself a 4K fire stick and download the apps you want using the new Downloader app from Troypoint. At that speed (215 gb), you won't have any problems with buffering. The new 4K fire stick has more room on it than the older one I'm running, and you're at 3 times my speed (75 gb). So, with that configuration, you'll be able to watch your shows and movies at 1080p or better and the larger streams (1.0 gb or more) with no problem.
Don't bother signing up for the any of the expensive entertainment packages. You'll have all you can watch right there for way less than $100 a month.
I've had HughesNet for the past 18 months and hate it. Been looking for an alternative. Fiber Optic is all around me, even to places more back in the boonies that I am, but I don't have it. Found out that AT&T has a fixed wireless internet that has became available to me, or at least they say it is. 215 GB's a month for $40, 10 times my current allowance at half the price. I have them scheduled to come this Thursday to check and see if the signal is strong enough. I'll have to buy out my remaining months with Hughes, but what I'll save will more than make up for that.
Is that $40 a month AT&Ts discounted 'new customer' promotional price deal and will increase to their standard price after a given time period?
The reason I ask is it's not at all like AT&T to permanently lock-in service prices that low. Typically it just last for the first year of service and to new customers only.
I've had HughesNet for the past 18 months and hate it. Been looking for an alternative. Fiber Optic is all around me, even to places more back in the boonies that I am, but I don't have it. Found out that AT&T has a fixed wireless internet that has became available to me, or at least they say it is. 215 GB's a month for $40, 10 times my current allowance at half the price. I have them scheduled to come this Thursday to check and see if the signal is strong enough. I'll have to buy out my remaining months with Hughes, but what I'll save will more than make up for that.
Is that $40 a month AT&Ts discounted 'new customer' promotional price deal and will increase to their standard price after a given time period?
The reason I ask is it's not at all like AT&T to permanently lock-in service prices that low. Typically it just last for the first year of service and to new customers only.
That price was bundled with my cell phones. I've not signed the contract yet, and will find out about the price after the first year. Actually, AT&T has several different wireless internet plan. Another one was $50 a month for 50GB, different kind of hookup.
I'm just searching for something that will get rid of Hughes. Their TV ads are so misleading. I had DishNet, which was ok, but they are wanting to get rid of their internet business, and switched me over to Hughes.........supposedly an upgrade, with faster speeds and more data, which wasn't just a lie, but a damn lie.
After that, get yourself a 4K fire stick and download the apps you want using the new Downloader app from Troypoint. At that speed (215 gb), you won't have any problems with buffering. The new 4K fire stick has more room on it than the older one I'm running, and you're at 3 times my speed (75 gb). So, with that configuration, you'll be able to watch your shows and movies at 1080p or better and the larger streams (1.0 gb or more) with no problem.
Don't bother signing up for the any of the expensive entertainment packages. You'll have all you can watch right there for way less than $100 a month.
Basically, you're golden.
I believe that's 215GB of data per month for $40, not download speed.
I have a bill coming from Dish for this summer but I fired them and went with Direct a year ago las spring, 2018. I hope they can't force me to pay. Be Well, RZ.
After that, get yourself a 4K fire stick and download the apps you want using the new Downloader app from Troypoint. At that speed (215 gb), you won't have any problems with buffering. The new 4K fire stick has more room on it than the older one I'm running, and you're at 3 times my speed (75 gb). So, with that configuration, you'll be able to watch your shows and movies at 1080p or better and the larger streams (1.0 gb or more) with no problem.
Don't bother signing up for the any of the expensive entertainment packages. You'll have all you can watch right there for way less than $100 a month.
Basically, you're golden.
I believe that's 215GB of data per month for $40, not download speed.
That's the way they advertise it. But, I actually get around 200 gb (190) from my 75 gb contract now that they've fixed the problems in my neighborhood with the fiber optic cable.
The speed isn't where you get the problem. It's the hole it's getting sucked through. My older fire stick doesn't have enough room left on it after all the apps to handle buffering of the larger streams. I need to get a 4K fire stick.
I've had HughesNet for the past 18 months and hate it. Been looking for an alternative. Fiber Optic is all around me, even to places more back in the boonies that I am, but I don't have it. Found out that AT&T has a fixed wireless internet that has became available to me, or at least they say it is. 215 GB's a month for $40, 10 times my current allowance at half the price. I have them scheduled to come this Thursday to check and see if the signal is strong enough. I'll have to buy out my remaining months with Hughes, but what I'll save will more than make up for that.
Is that $40 a month AT&Ts discounted 'new customer' promotional price deal and will increase to their standard price after a given time period?
The reason I ask is it's not at all like AT&T to permanently lock-in service prices that low. Typically it just last for the first year of service and to new customers only.
My 75gb contract with Comcast is $59.99/mo because I'm a "senior".
One of the nice girlie reps found that deal for me, and so far it has stuck for a couple years now.
A while back a long time AT&T service man told me that their fiber optic advertising was mostly smoke and mirrors hype and misleading at best. He said that fiber optics aren't available in many markets, especially smaller markets and rural areas and won't be for a long time, if ever. Where their fiber optics is available will in many areas just be to main distribution hubs, but from there on it still will be over existing phone transmission lines.
The cable company said for $80,000 they would run 6 poles and hook us up and 5 other of my in-laws' homes. And the guy sort of chuckled saying it.
I told them when we eventually develop the back 200 acres of this place into 3-5 acre lots, they won't be the provider for any data, voice, etc. I sort of chuckled myself telling him back.
In certain areas, the local rural electric co-ops have run internet service through their lines. I've been told it's pretty high speed stuff too. I asked the manager of our local co-op if they had considered doing it, and he said it costs too much for them to do it. Now, this fellow is kin to me, rather close too, so I said to him........"all those overseas trips that you and your wife take to business meetings cost a lot too." He has spoken to me since then only when it was absolutely necessary, and it has not bothered me in the least.
I've had HughesNet for the past 18 months and hate it. Been looking for an alternative. Fiber Optic is all around me, even to places more back in the boonies that I am, but I don't have it. Found out that AT&T has a fixed wireless internet that has became available to me, or at least they say it is. 215 GB's a month for $40, 10 times my current allowance at half the price. I have them scheduled to come this Thursday to check and see if the signal is strong enough. I'll have to buy out my remaining months with Hughes, but what I'll save will more than make up for that.
Is that $40 a month AT&Ts discounted 'new customer' promotional price deal and will increase to their standard price after a given time period?
The reason I ask is it's not at all like AT&T to permanently lock-in service prices that low. Typically it just last for the first year of service and to new customers only.
That price was bundled with my cell phones. I've not signed the contract yet, and will find out about the price after the first year. Actually, AT&T has several different wireless internet plan. Another one was $50 a month for 50GB, different kind of hookup.
I'm just searching for something that will get rid of Hughes. Their TV ads are so misleading. I had DishNet, which was ok, but they are wanting to get rid of their internet business, and switched me over to Hughes.........supposedly an upgrade, with faster speeds and more data, which wasn't just a lie, but a damn lie.
$40 Internet Offer: Ends 12/31/19. Price for Internet 300 for new residential customers in AT&T Fiber markets when bundled with another qualifying AT&T service (TV/AT&T Phone/Wireless). Promotional pricing for first 12 months only. After 12 mos., the rate increases to $60/mo unless canceled by customer prior to end of 12 mos. Prorated ETF ($180) applies if Internet is disconnected before end of 12 mos. Must maintain bundled qualifying services with matching service address to receive advertised pricing. Additional Fees & Taxes: Excludes cost-recovery charges, where applicable, and a $10/mo equipment fee. Credit restrictions apply. Pricing subj to change. Select MDU residents, AT&T Employees/Retirees not eligible. Subj. to Internet Terms of Service at att.com/internet-terms.
Also, watch your monthly bill closely, item for item, as AT&T is known for make occasional, "Oopsies", adding in things like, service calls when a problem is actually on their end -- not yours, automatically start billing for any limited, "free trial", extras that initially came with your package but you do not want to keep, 'insurance' for line maintenance, etc., etc.
Interesting deal this morning. Woke up, wife says internet not working, asking for login and password. And it wasn't the one for the router. So I gave it try and sure as scheidt not the router login/PW. Looked like a login page to "my account" on their web login. Well, I don't have an account and thought if they emailed me yesterday (internet worked fine Thurs night and all night yesterday) I wouldn't know it as I didn't check email last night.
Called the phone number I have for them, recorded message. Hrs are 9-5 M-F. after hours and weekends contact them through their Farcebook page. Well dang, guess what, even if I had Farcebook, I couldn't use it as I have no F'n internet!
contacted sister, she was on way to tennis tourney with her daughter, contacted brother #2, nope, he was at work. Contacted bro #1, he got in touch with them. Finally got automated msg back saying to reset router and unplug their little white box from the back of it. First try, no good. He relayed, they said try again, so this time I left it unpowered for a good 2 minutes. Finally got it working again.
Just hope I don't have to go through this every couple of days. Will call them Mon to find out what the deal is.
I sure love the download speed when it works, compared to Hughes, and we won't be limited to 16 hours or so of streaming. Fast enough now I don't have to wait for videos to buffer.
I sure love technology when it works and absolutely HATE it when it doesn't.
Finally able to get a local line of sight WISP (wireless internet service provider) and get rid of HughesNet. When we first moved here they weren't taking new customers, not enough bandwidth and they didn't want to lower the quality of service to their existing customers. Saw the neighbor dismantling his Hughes dish the other day and found out we had local service out here. What a fuggin relief.
I hate big companies like Hughes, Dish, Direct, Comcast etc. Every survey done shows customer satisfaction lower than low.
We are getting a way better deal too. Service is so good I can now listen to the youtube videos folks put up, or a new video, and not have to play a game of solitaire while waiting for the video to load. And there's no limit on how many hours we can stream like there was with Hughes.
Best of all, less than 1/2 the cost for twice the service.....................and my money is staying and helping local folks.
Geno
So I been posting up all my jacked up vids and you aint been able ta enjoy em in a timely manner??? Wtf......
Well here is one and I think she has a really great voice!!!
You guys are confusing gb (gigabyte) with Mb(megabyte).
The fastest service available from ATT is 1000 Mb or 1 gigabyte. That service is fiber optic only.
Nobody gets 215 gigs, 215 megs is .215 gigs
And you're confusing megabits with megabytes. ALL WAN throughput is measured in terms of bits/sec, not bytes/sec. So, the fastest available from ATT is going to be gigabit fiber. Or about 100 megabytes/sec
You all living rural and whining about not having the nonstop eyecandy of the big city cesspits? The Man is gouging you because you ain't where all the wires are? Read a book.
I live so far away from any town that all i can get is hughes net. I have their newest version, and the highest speed they offer. Still leaves something to be desired.
You guys are confusing gb (gigabyte) with Mb(megabyte).
The fastest service available from ATT is 1000 Mb or 1 gigabyte. That service is fiber optic only.
Nobody gets 215 gigs, 215 megs is .215 gigs
And you're confusing megabits with megabytes. ALL WAN throughput is measured in terms of bits/sec, not bytes/sec. So, the fastest available from ATT is going to be gigabit fiber. Or about 100 megabytes/sec
You guys are confusing gb (gigabyte) with Mb(megabyte).
The fastest service available from ATT is 1000 Mb or1 gigabyte. That service is fiber optic only.
Nobody gets 215 gigs, 215 megs is .215 gigs
And you're confusing megabits with megabytes. ALL WAN throughput is measured in terms of bits/sec, not bytes/sec. So, the fastest available from ATT is going to be gigabit fiber. Or about 100 megabytes/sec
= 1000 megabits
Nobody has 200+ gigs.
Well, I seriously doubt anyone at home does. But it's out there. Look at the specs for OC-3840/STM-1280. But maybe some billionaire's just got to have that 200Gbps connectivity.
What I was trying to point out to you, is that you fell into the same sort of trap that Valsdad etc.. did. In that you said that the fastest service from ATT is 1 gigabyte/sec, when it's actually gigabit/sec.
It's utterly pedantic of me, sure. But an analogue would be calling the ammunition used in the M16/M4 ".556 caliber". It's just not right.
The Hughsnet Gen 5 chick on TV gives me the strangest boner, but that’s the extent of my experience with Hughsnet... I hope I have not offended anyone with that bold confession.
The Hughsnet Gen 5 chick on TV gives me the strangest boner, but that’s the extent of my experience with Hughsnet... I hope I have not offended anyone with that bold confession.
Are you kiddin'?
This is the 'Fire -- you will simply get requests to post pictures of said babe!
The Hughsnet Gen 5 chick on TV gives me the strangest boner, but that’s the extent of my experience with Hughsnet... I hope I have not offended anyone with that bold confession.
The Hughsnet Gen 5 chick on TV gives me the strangest boner, but that’s the extent of my experience with Hughsnet... I hope I have not offended anyone with that bold confession.
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