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You guys with smart phones.

Were any of you able to connect via your data plan, or did you get on our wifi connection?

I think we're going shopping for interwebs this weekend, and I'm just wanting to know if you guys could tell me if you got a 3g signal and who your data provider is.

We're on Verizon right now, but we've got an old AllTel device, and Verizon is going to stop providing service to them at the end of the year. We've been out of contract for a couple of years now, and no matter what we do at this point, we're going to be stuck under contract again. :mad: If we're going to be under contract, we want to get the best internet service we can.
 
I'm on Verizon and I got 3G outside. Inside my phone grabbed your wifi, so Im not sure about indoors.
 
I have sprint, and I couldn't get squat. What little I did get was either roaming on another carrier or using your wifi.
 
I know Verizon gets 3g there...at least upstairs where the modem is.

The problem is that their plans are all capped and the higher the cap, the more expensive the plan. And the caps are pretty small for home use, and way more expensive than a wired internet service that would have much higher caps (if any) and much faster speeds.

The joys of rural living.
 
That sucks ....a couple months ago you could have picked up a phone on an unlimited data plan the used it as a wifi hotspot.....kill a few birds with one phone.

Sprint still has unlimited everything...duuno about the coverage in your region though
 
Prages said:
I know Verizon gets 3g there...at least upstairs where the modem is.

The problem is that their plans are all capped and the higher the cap, the more expensive the plan. And the caps are pretty small for home use, and way more expensive than a wired internet service that would have much higher caps (if any) and much faster speeds.

The joys of rural living.
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It's so weird you city water but you can't get DSL.
 
reverend1 said:
It's so weird you city water but you can't get DSL.
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Seriously. City water, but no sewer. Telephone, but no cable or DSL.

What's more, Lino has DSL at his cabin in Pocahontas County.

Shit, even in Helvetia, WV, which is about 30 miles from the nearest town and has a population of maybe 200, they have DSL. :mad:
 
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I stand corrected. As of the 2010 Census, the population of Helvetia was 59. The population of my house was more than 59 a few weeks ago. :mad:
 
Lerxst said:
That sucks ....a couple months ago you could have picked up a phone on an unlimited data plan the used it as a wifi hotspot.....kill a few birds with one phone.

Sprint still has unlimited everything...duuno about the coverage in your region though
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Wow, I went full on coda with that post
 
Prages said:
Seriously. City water, but no sewer. Telephone, but no cable or DSL.

What's more, Lino has DSL at his cabin in Pocahontas County.

Shit, even in Helvetia, WV, which is about 30 miles from the nearest town and has a population of maybe 200, they have DSL. :mad:
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Our frontier internet at cabin is much faster than our suddenlink in Charleston, crazy stuff. As far as at your house goes, I have AT&T on the I-Phone and I had to walk up onto the road to make a call and hooked to your wireless in the house
 
reverend1 said:
We have Frontier at our house. It's really fast and cheap too.
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Yeah, we pay a discounted $55/month for service that's probably 1/10th as fast as yours and once we go over about 10gb of downloads within a month, they start throttling it to where it's pretty much useless.
 
I had 3G at the house. I didn't connect to your wifi as I didn't want to add to hitting your wall of download data. And I have Verizon.
 
So, it seems that Verizon is the only cellular option so far.

I'm not sure about doing the satellite thing. It seems like it's even more expensive, probably not much faster, and still has data limits. Plus there's the latency thing.
 
Prages said:
So, it seems that Verizon is the only cellular option so far.

I'm not sure about doing the satellite thing. It seems like it's even more expensive, probably not much faster, and still has data limits. Plus there's the latency thing.
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I don't have current experience with it but several years ago I knew someone that had it up in New Hampshire. It was slow, horribly expensive and periodically dropped out.
 
Lerxst said:
I don't have current experience with it but several years ago I knew someone that had it up in New Hampshire. It was slow, horribly expensive and periodically dropped out.
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That sounds about right.

But it's a huge step up from dialup.

I know a couple of people with satellite internet. I'll have to talk to them and see how they like it.

I know most people would go absolutely nuts with the quality of our internet service. We can't really do Netflix Streaming and some days you can't even get youtube videos to play properly. You almost always have to wait for it buffer.

Yet, since we went from dialup, which normally connected at about 32kbps or something to what we've got now, which is usually just shy of 1mbps, we don't normally complain too much.

Until we hit the data limit and they throttle us back to 100kbps or whatever it is they do.
 
Prages said:
I stand corrected. As of the 2010 Census, the population of Helvetia was 59. The population of my house was more than 59 a few weeks ago. :mad:
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lmbo

I have verizon and there were times when I got solid 3G, but there were other times when it was spotty. I never turn the wifi on with my Droid.
 
baimun said:
lmbo

I have verizon and there were times when I got solid 3G, but there were other times when it was spotty. I never turn the wifi on with my Droid.
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That's because my iPhone tool all of the signal from your crappy Droid.
 
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