I just bought a house that's about 10 miles outside of the main town and Internet options are slim. I refuse to get Hughs Net, somebody I called said AT&T has a fiber cable within 500 feet of my house and that would be about $350 a month with a contract, or what I'm doing now is using a 4G LTE netgear modem with a Cricket (AT&T) sim. $50 per month for 22gb of data.
With the LTE I typically speedtest around 60-90 ping, 5-10 mbps down, 2-3 mbps up. I've been able to play some not too ping intensive online games during the day if I'm home alone. Netflix generally has to buffer multiple times to watch a show. However if me and my wife both try to use our computer at the same time basic web pages stop loading. I couldn't even run a speed test with both computers online but not running any processes at all.
Until I can afford $350 a month (maybe never), and until this LEO satellite that I've been hearing about is actually up and running (a couple years if ever) I've been looking at bonding. I can upgrade my Cricket plan to 4 lines for only $100 per month. If I could bond them then I'd have something quite decent, even if I used over the 88gb of combined data and was throttled.
I've called Mushroom Networks and their router was $5k alone. "the Bonding Service would run $100.00/month for a 10/10 and $250.00/month unthrottled." "We also have that rental program and with a Truffle Lite unit and our Bonding Service bonding 4 connections that would run $228.00/month." At that point I could go with the AT&T fiber line, which isn't affordable.
I admit I'm not network wiz. Is there a router with 4 WAN ports or built in sim slots that can bond connections itself or do you have to subscribe to a bonding service? Is there a cheap bonding service that isn't specifically business/enterprise $$$$ oriented?
http://sharedband.com/business/price-plans/
This seems like a possible company. It could cost a few hundred to set up but would only bring the monthly bill total to ~$150 which is doable.
https://speedify.com/pricing/ Or this would be even cheaper at only $50 per year for bonding service.
With the LTE I typically speedtest around 60-90 ping, 5-10 mbps down, 2-3 mbps up. I've been able to play some not too ping intensive online games during the day if I'm home alone. Netflix generally has to buffer multiple times to watch a show. However if me and my wife both try to use our computer at the same time basic web pages stop loading. I couldn't even run a speed test with both computers online but not running any processes at all.
Until I can afford $350 a month (maybe never), and until this LEO satellite that I've been hearing about is actually up and running (a couple years if ever) I've been looking at bonding. I can upgrade my Cricket plan to 4 lines for only $100 per month. If I could bond them then I'd have something quite decent, even if I used over the 88gb of combined data and was throttled.
I've called Mushroom Networks and their router was $5k alone. "the Bonding Service would run $100.00/month for a 10/10 and $250.00/month unthrottled." "We also have that rental program and with a Truffle Lite unit and our Bonding Service bonding 4 connections that would run $228.00/month." At that point I could go with the AT&T fiber line, which isn't affordable.
I admit I'm not network wiz. Is there a router with 4 WAN ports or built in sim slots that can bond connections itself or do you have to subscribe to a bonding service? Is there a cheap bonding service that isn't specifically business/enterprise $$$$ oriented?
http://sharedband.com/business/price-plans/
This seems like a possible company. It could cost a few hundred to set up but would only bring the monthly bill total to ~$150 which is doable.
https://speedify.com/pricing/ Or this would be even cheaper at only $50 per year for bonding service.