Need an alternative to DSL

[radgoldfish]

Hi, I live with my siblings and parents in a rural area and we only have DSL here. It is absolutely infuriating to have to try to game, download, watch netflix, or do ANYTHING online at 1 megabit per second. Our ISP is complete garbage and does nothing to help us. And the icing on the cake is the fact that I can drive two miles down the road and see fios vans working on the power lines.

The service here is awful. My brother and I are both gamers, my sister is a netflix junkie, and my mother works from home (God bless her soul). It takes anywhere from 3-10 seconds for a freaking facebook page to load. I'm sick of this.

I've looked into LTE internet service, but all the options seem to cap out at 30 gigs a month, and considering I download games larger than this, this will not cut it. A cap is fine, as long as its extremely large (600GB maybe?). I don't really care about speed, I'm just asking for 1 megabyte. I get 1/8th of that right now if I'm lucky. I know 1MB seems slow but my phone's LTE is about 2 and its more than I could ever ask for. Unfortunately I only get 2 gigs a month on my phone.

So please, does anyone here know ANY alternatives to DSL internet? ANYTHING? I can't take this anymore. Sorry for being dramatic, but I have 15 years of lag-induced rage built up inside me. Please help.

Thanks.

 

[maikutech]

Depends on where exactly you live at and if the phone/cable company will reach out there to reach you for service.
Also before you are quick to sign up for faster and better services, read the terms and agreement and fine print.
I don't think you or your mother needs a bigger bill then she can currently afford.

What type of router do you use, also who is your service provider at the moment.
What state do you live in currently, the reason why I ask this is to see what is doable and what isn't.

 

[RealBeast]

Unfortunately, the only answer is likely DSL, but if you can afford it perhaps you can get a second DSL line installed solely for your use.

Satellite has too much latency, cable is generally not available in remote rural locations, and 4G has the problem of small data caps.

 

[radgoldfish]

Depends on where exactly you live at and if the phone/cable company will reach out there to reach you for service.
Also before you are quick to sign up for faster and better services, read the terms and agreement and fine print.
I don't think you or your mother needs a bigger bill then she can currently afford.

What type of router do you use, also who is your service provider at the moment.
What state do you live in currently, the reason why I ask this is to see what is doable and what isn't.

My parents are very well off, my mom would switch in a heartbeat even if the cost was $1xx a month.

Our current dsl provider is the only wired internet service at our address. satillite internet is available but that is even worse.
isp is Frontier, notorious for being awful. The router doesn't matter, we've tried all different kinds at all different price levels and nothing has ever changed. Verizon fios is available 2-3 miles down the road so when I search my ZIP code lots of options appear, however only hughesnet and fronteir are available. Are there any type of wireless internet services that match what I'm looking for, or are we doomed to be on this service forever?

 

[maxwellmelon]

your doomed till another isp expandes to cover your home.

FYI at 1Mbs yes no router is is going to make a difference. The only posiablity is if your DSL offers a faster speed option which of course I'm guessing they don't offer you because your very far out(if your not withint like 5miles of a central hub). trust me it took three years of me being on DSL at 1mbs till Comcast came along and now I enjoy for double the cost of the dsl I get 100mbs service. Thanks Comcast I love you.

 

[maikutech]

Depends on where exactly you live at and if the phone/cable company will reach out there to reach you for service.
Also before you are quick to sign up for faster and better services, read the terms and agreement and fine print.
I don't think you or your mother needs a bigger bill then she can currently afford.

What type of router do you use, also who is your service provider at the moment.
What state do you live in currently, the reason why I ask this is to see what is doable and what isn't.

My parents are very well off, my mom would switch in a heartbeat even if the cost was $1xx a month.

Our current dsl provider is the only wired internet service at our address. satillite internet is available but that is even worse.
isp is Frontier, notorious for being awful. The router doesn't matter, we've tried all different kinds at all different price levels and nothing has ever changed. Verizon fios is available 2-3 miles down the road so when I search my ZIP code lots of options appear, however only hughesnet and fronteir are available. Are there any type of wireless internet services that match what I'm looking for, or are we doomed to be on this service forever?

With speeds such as your isp is providing, that maybe the best you can hope for at the moment.
http://www.get-frontier.com/internet/

The only thing I could recommend is collaborate with your family on using the internet speed.
Or wait till you graduate from high school, leave home for college and get a job and get your own internet service.

 

[Mark RM]

You can game and web surf over 4G and schedule your downloads for nights over your DSL while understanding it may take multiple nights to get a game downloaded. There's really not much you can do otherwise.

 

[Pooneil]

It's possible that the Verizon FiOS in your area is now part of Frontier. As Verizon Corp has sold a great number of rural customers to Frontier or CenturyLink. Alas, rural customers are in a pickle because the traditional ways of government enforced subsidizing high cost rural areas from lower cost urban services has broken down. The best thing you could do would be to organize your neighbors and start a friendly campaign to get Frontier to provide better service. Frontier participates in a government subsidy mechanism to provide rural internet service so you may have some luck if they know who you are and that you represent a serious level of business. Talk to your state PUC and maybe even the FCC.