This may seem a stupid question but for me it is not. bob3160 I noticed from photos you post you must live in a remote area, that is why I might can use your opinion. I live in the big city and have comcast cable but plan to retire in less than 3 years to a house I own that is 12 miles from a small town, so I have no chance of ever getting cable. When I go there now I use my verizon hotspot which works great but only has 3g available in that area, which might get 4g in the next 5 years I hope. My problem is I stay on the internet a lot which is of no problem on comcast cable but on the hotspot when I go to the country to use 5g of data is nothing in a week. That means instead of $40 a month in the city the country will cost $200 a month with reduced time on the internet. I checked into satellite but they reduce you to dial up when you go over 300 meg in a day, so what is that to download a 1g linux live cd about 24 hours?? So bob or anybody else, what are you using in a remote area for the best speed and best data plan? Right now I plan to stay with the hotspot and just stay off the computer as much as posible and check my usage daily, what a pain. When I agreed with my wife to buy the house I thought satellite had a good speed but found out they run about 1.5 mbps, I get 2.5 on my 3g hotspot and no reduction after 300 m per day. Living in the country is not for heavy useage internet people. bob or anyone know of something I do not. My wife will not be happy if I average $400 a month to use the internet. slybo
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@ slybo,
Living in the country doesn’t have to mean living in the stone age.
I use Comcast as my ISP and have for many years at a cost of about $70.00 per month.
There was a short time when we first moved to Meadow Lake that I used the internet service from DirecTV.
It isn’t something I can recommend unless there is no other choice.
(They may also have improved in the 7 years since I got rid of them.)
Not all of us living in the sticks (Rural areas) are hicks. 
I have to ask how do you get cable if you live in the area that photo shows, is that what the speed test is for that area???
If you do have cable in that area, I wish I lived there. Where I am moving to they do not offer it and do not think they will. They got land line phone service last year and I ask if they has DSL and the phone man putting in the line in the area did not know. He said call AT&T, when I did they did not know. I guess stuck with hotspot.
The photo is of an area about 1/5 of a mile from my home. We’re in the process of turning that 35 acres into a wildlife refuge
and nature preserve for all in the community to enjoy.
The speed test is of the service I have using my Laptop while doing the test.
I suggest you again call ATT to get an answer on the availability of DSL. (I don’t know isn’t an acceptable answer in my book.)
Well you know how phone support is, and I do not have a phone number to give them to locate me, so that made it real hard to explain where I was located. I have a cell and was planning on that being my only phone service. I thought once I move there I would get a land line, at that time it would be easy to call and ask if this number could get DSL, so I will wait till I make the move. I am also hoping that Verizon will make better plans for hotspots by then and also have 4g in that area. When I first got a cell phone you paid a lot for a few minutes a month, now I have unlimited. I am hoping hotspot plans get closer to that. If you need anybody to live on that land you have keep me in mind and Thanks for the replys. slybo
If you need anybody to live on that land you have keep me in mind
Sorry it’s reserved for wildlife.
Your welcome.