Internet Providers

[radioguy]

Starlink has just added a few more residential tiers. I just signed up for 100Mbs for $50/mo. Good enough for the 2 of us in the camper. We'll see what happens when we move in a few weeks.

There is an referral program, you get 1 month free and I get 1 month free. Send me PM if interested. Need email address for that.

RG

 

[sandyut]

At our other place the only option is Xfinity and with all the outages that area experiences it's pretty unreliable.

That is exactly what drove me to try SL.

 

[MileHighSmokerGirl]

Where we live the only thing we can get is satellite TV and internet. Well, our internet is a local tower that is wireless to us. Cell phone coverage is very iffy. They did run fiber out in our area but only along US Hwy 24 and to Cripple Creek. Maybe one day the will run it out north and south of the highway to where most of the folks live. I do have a SL system in the closet, still in the box. My son did the signal test and never found a strong signal due to trees. I need to cut them down but have been more concerned about cutting dying trees on the property for firewood. Hopefully, I get the trees down this summer so I can get the SL up and running. I aslo saw something about getting SL through Dish Network, which we have. Haven't looked in to it yet, though. I should probably do that before cutting down healthy trees. I can always sell the setup for SL as a lot of folks here have already gone that direction.

Order some extension cable and climb the tree. You can use zip ties and secure the pipe to the tree and have the dish poke out of the top. Just use a rope and harness for safety while you're up there. But you CAN get signal.

 

[ajbert]

Order some extension cable and climb the tree. You can use zip ties and secure the pipe to the tree and have the dish poke out of the top. Just use a rope and harness for safety while you're up there. But you CAN get signal.

I'd have no promblem doing that back when I 8-12 years old, but being I'm in my early 60"s and weighing quite a bit more than I did back then makes me hesitate for a bit before climbing up 60 foot trees. I know, I'm just a big scaredy cat.

It is amazing the things one did at a younger age, when looking back I don't know how I ever got out of my 20's!

 

[MileHighSmokerGirl]

I'd have no promblem doing that back when I 8-12 years old, but being I'm in my early 60"s and weighing quite a bit more than I did back then makes me hesitate for a bit before climbing up 60 foot trees. I know, I'm just a big scaredy cat.

It is amazing the things one did at a younger age, when looking back I don't know how I ever got out of my 20's!

Do you have any nephews or grand kids?

 

[ajbert]

Do you have any nephews or grand kids?

All out of state, closest would be nephews/nieces in Texas close to the gulf coast. Pretty sure most states may have outlawed kids climbing trees these days, especially with me standing below with a cattle prod in my hand.

 

[MileHighSmokerGirl]

There's another free tv provider for those interested.

Pluto TV: Watch Free Movies, TV Shows & Live TV Online

Watch 1000s of free movies and TV shows on demand & 100s of live TV channels for free.

www.pluto.tv

 

[sandyut]

Getting my SL dish installed on the soffit tomorrow.

Its been running on roam standby mode for a month. I wetn to change the plan and the only residential plan available for residential max ($120). I was hoping to start with the residential 200 mbs ($80).

Anyone know why the $80 plan is not an option? It shows as available when look at the availability.

 

[ajbert]

I called Dish a couple of days ago and was told the only plan they had for SL was the same $120 plan at 400mb. We don't nearly need that much speed but it was a much better price than upping our current speed to 50mb at $150. We are still mulling it over. Already paying too much for Dish but I need my SEC Network for LSU sports.

 

[sandyut]

I called Dish a couple of days ago and was told the only plan they had for SL was the same $120 plan at 400mb. We don't nearly need that much speed but it was a much better price than upping our current speed to 50mb at $150. We are still mulling it over. Already paying too much for Dish but I need my SEC Network for LSU sports.

thanks that helps. I did some research and SL doesnt offer all plans in every area. Seems odd they only offer the more expensive one up here, but whatever.

We are over Comcast going out every time the power goes out. We have a gen, so SL will close the loop for us. For some reason we loose power a lot in our neighborhood. Some are the pre-safety ones and some are just random. The last wind storm left us without cell or internet for 4 days and that was the the breaking point...had to drive a couple miles away to use cell service.

 

[sandyut]

Turns out both the 80 and 120 plans are available. AND they installed the dish for free and I bought it an HD, not a rental. Starting on the $80 200mbps option, if that does get enough juice, i'll up it.

 

[Steve H]

Just bought the SL mini with the roam 100 gig for 50.00
I think this will work for us. Only going to use it a max of 12 hours on a weekend.
I'll just need to make sure I only use SD on movies as much as I can.

 

[sandyut]

An update: I was having random issues with the Roku's after switching to SL. I ended up putting the SL router in bypass and putting my TP link router on it. the TP link router is a beast. Also switched to the "residential max" plan. Speeds are way up. I did the router thing last night. Hopefully my beasty router will work better. Part of the issue could be we have 26 devices on the WiFi...I need to research if thats an issue, or not.

 

[sandyut]

Ok, pulling down over 300 mbps at the furthest spot in the house from the router. The TP Link router is WAY better than the SL. the SL works like a modem now. And I set the TP router to restart weekly to keep it running smooth. SL doesnt have that option.

 

[bmudd14474]

Ok, pulling down over 300 mbps at the furthest spot in the house from the router. The TP Link router is WAY better than the SL. the SL works like a modem now. And I set the TP router to restart weekly to keep it running smooth. SL doesnt have that option.

I did the same thing

 

[Steve H]

Ok, pulling down over 300 mbps at the furthest spot in the house from the router. The TP Link router is WAY better than the SL. the SL works like a modem now. And I set the TP router to restart weekly to keep it running smooth. SL doesnt have that option.

I was reading that the router in the mini is not very strong. A range of about 75'. I have a King WiFi extender that I can use if needed. I bought it for the RV. And it worked really good. Downside was you had to set it up each time you went to a new campground. Which was a royal pita. Should do the trick if I need it.

 

[civilsmoker]

We have a Wifi 7 (edit) router with broadband over copper pods on each level of the house.... My son plugs directly into the pod hard wire and gets full speed (same as modem speed, two floors away). The pod extenders are MONEY! He usually gets 800-850M up/down all the time, on Wifi, I run 650-750 up/down....out of our 1G up/down fiber....

 

[chopsaw]

We have a Wifi 6 router

Nice . I've been looking at them . I have the 5 or 802.11ac .Got the email that it's no longer supported . I get 400 up / down hardwired , and 200 plus up / down wifi . I'm on cable . Which has been a nightmare for the last year . I finally got a guy in the house , and he redid the connection coming in the house . It was still hooked up to a splitter that was feeding all the rooms , with nothing hooked up anymore ( boxes ) . Ran that straight to the modem . Been working great since that and they fixed some stuff outside .

Anyway , I didn't mean to ramble . @civilsmoker
So if I upgrade my router to a 6 or 7 , and devices in the house aren't 6 or 7 , do they still connect and work ? Just at their normal rate , and anything that is 6 or 7 will or should run at the faster speed ?

 

[civilsmoker]

Nice . I've been looking at them . I have the 5 or 802.11ac .Got the email that it's no longer supported . I get 400 up / down hardwired , and 200 plus up / down wifi . I'm on cable . Which has been a nightmare for the last year . I finally got a guy in the house , and he redid the connection coming in the house . It was still hooked up to a splitter that was feeding all the rooms , with nothing hooked up anymore ( boxes ) . Ran that straight to the modem . Been working great since that and they fixed some stuff outside .

Anyway , I didn't mean to ramble . @civilsmoker
So if I upgrade my router to a 6 or 7 , and devices in the house aren't 6 or 7 , do they still connect and work ? Just at their normal rate , and anything that is 6 or 7 will or should run at the faster speed ?

Oh correction I just looked and its Wifi 7, our old system was 6 and they just recently upgraded it all.....

Yup, my sons laptop on Wifi only pulls 150 ish, because he has an older card. Our desk top pulls 550, my phone pulls 750 next to both. If you plug into a pod it's just like hard wire, ie its just plugged into an outlet directly.

We have a splitter with cat 6 to most rooms but we have scrapped using cause they aren't exactly where we want the connection and the split downgrades it so now we are all wifi or pod plug in.

We are lucky because our provider supplies the wifi 6 router and pods in the plan. The tech came out and tested every room in the house for speed and such...

 

[chopsaw]

If you plug into a pod it's just like hard wire,

Because the Pods are hard wired correct ?

We have a splitter with cat 6 to most rooms

I was talking about the coax . Cable in to the splitter , then coax to all the rooms . The tech took the " in " right to the modem .

I have Cat 6 to all the rooms too . I used to run a 24 port switch , and everything was hardwired for internet , and ran 2 servers on the network . Had movies , music and games on the old Goliath 4 processor tower . Then built a dual P3 450 to replace it . Had 9 computers running on the network . Long time ago . I still have all that stuff just sitting in the basement . Wish I had that money back . Lol .