Fast rural internet

[gbryan]

I'd like to share our happy discovery that for the same cost as our Blue Sky satellite coverage we have much improved speed through Sprint. You have to purchase a 3G wireless router from Sprint (about 100 bucks) and pay 60/mo. for the service. We live in an area near Graton that gets a strong signal from Sprint. The speed is around 1000 kbs download and 4-500 kbs upload. That is about 3X what we had been getting! Jawbone

[gbryan]

I'd like to share our happy discovery that for the same cost as our Blue Sky satellite coverage we have much improved speed through Sprint. You have to purchase a 3G wireless router from Sprint (about 100 bucks) and pay 60/mo. for the service. We live in an area near Graton that gets a strong signal from Sprint. The speed is around 1000 kbs download and 4-500 kbs upload. That is about 3X what we had been getting! Jawbone
One additional benefit is that this router is mobile and you can use it any place Sprint has coverage (as with with your laptop). The device is called Overdrive D-64 by Sierra Wireless and is compatible with the much faster internet G4 that is said to be coming. Jawbone

[parlyvous]

I'd like to share our happy discovery that for the same cost as our Blue Sky satellite coverage we have much improved speed through Sprint. You have to purchase a 3G wireless router from Sprint (about 100 bucks) and pay 60/mo. for the service. We live in an area near Graton that gets a strong signal from Sprint. The speed is around 1000 kbs download and 4-500 kbs upload. That is about 3X what we had been getting! Jawbone My...my dream has come true?

I was just contacted by Spring and for Sebastopol (near Freestone) this was their reply:"I have checked the coverage in your are Sebastopol, CA 95472. We have
Sprint 3G network in that area. We provide average speed of 600 kbps -
1.4 Mbps for Download and 350 kbps - 500 kbps for Upload."
Sigh this won't get me my Netflix movies online nor videos...I guess one would have to wait for 4G (and at what cost?):hmmm:
Love rural life...hate lack of decent, affordable high speed internet. :(
You can also check the coverage in your area by accesssing -
www.sprint.com/coverage (https://www.sprint.com/coverage)

[CSummer]

Might be useful for some to know that $60 a month gets you 5 GBytes of download, beyond which you pay $0.05 per MByte (which comes to $50 for each additional GB). Probably quite adequate for 1 or 2 users, depending on how much downloading or video watching they do.



My...my dream has come true?

I was just contacted by Spring and for Sebastopol (near Freestone) this was their reply:"I have checked the coverage in your are Sebastopol, CA 95472. We have
Sprint 3G network in that area. We provide average speed of 600 kbps -
1.4 Mbps for Download and 350 kbps - 500 kbps for Upload."
Sigh this won't get me my Netflix movies online nor videos...I guess one would have to wait for 4G (and at what cost?):hmmm:
Love rural life...hate lack of decent, affordable high speed internet. :(
You can also check the coverage in your area by accesssing -
www.sprint.com/coverage (https://www.sprint.com/coverage)