31 Dec
2015
31 Dec
'15
1:14 a.m.
On 12/30/15 10:02 PM, Jim Brain wrote:
On 12/30/2015 10:51 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
I feel your pain! I had a "home" package with the same ISP
when we
first moved in. Since that tower was "downslope" from our house there
wasn't a problem. When I switched to their commercial package (the
speeds and network congestion were making it difficult at times to get
work done), I had to switch to a new tower (because it's a dedicated
link and there was no more space on the tower I was pointing at). They
had to mount the microwave dish on a tower on the roof of my
shop...we're at the top of a hill and I'm still having to shoot between
some trees. I'll probably have to get an arborist to come out in a year
or two and trim some branches.
I should probably investigate a business cellular package. My ISP did
have an outage that lasted about 8 hours a few months ago and that was
painful because I was trying to conserve data usage not to mention that
my cellular modem at that point decided to take a holiday and not bring
up the cellular link.
TTFN - Guy
We're at least 2.5 miles from the DSLAM, so
DSL is *not* an option.
That's the distance on the private roads and I haven't seen where the
DSLAM might be (nearest town is 5 miles away once you get to the
"public" roads).
We're in a similar boat. We're too far away
for DSL, microwave can't
reach us due to the treeline, and Cable isn't available here. I took a
page from FullTime RV folks, and bought a commercial grade router/AP
that uses cellular modems for uplink, and then found a business
cellular package that has unlimited use. We burn through 400GB every
month here.