I viewed a house yesterday I really liked. I want to make an offer on the house, but I'm not sure if I will be satisfied with the internet speed and reliability. The house is in a semi-rural area about an hour north of Detroit, Michigan and there is no cable or fiber internet available at the house. Basically, my options would be slow satellite dish, TMobile 5G business internet or Starlink. I did a bunch of research yesterday and came to the conclusion my best option to have fast, reliable internet would likely be to use Starlink (either Starlink Business or multiple starlink RV dishes until residential becomes available) combined with TMobile 5G business internet, along with a peplink to allow for hot failover between the Starlink and the 5G. It's possible I might also be able to get microwave internet as a failover instead (or in addition to) the 5G, but I'm not positive on this yet. I will need my internet to handle my day to day work, video conferencing, spotify and netflix streaming, and some gaming. I will live alone. Does anyone have any experience with this? If I end up buying this house and can't get reliable internet, I'll be screwed. I've been hearing so many conflicting opinions and I'm not sure what to do. #internet #starlink #wifi
Do u get good coverage with TMO? I would imagine business internet is sufficient if coverage is good. I switched from cable to TMO gateway internet, because I got tired of the Spectrum outages. TMO works fine for everything, but i live in NYC
It sounds like they have good coverage there. But the best plan I can get from them is unfortunately capped at 300GB/month.
Couple bought home in Seattle, then learned Comcast Internet would cost $27,000 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/couple-bought-home-in-seattle-then-learned-comcast-internet-would-cost-27000/
I live rural on Starlink. It’s great. Did you already check the address on their system? Here there was quite a waitlist.
I did check. Starlink residential is not yet available, but Starlink Business is. It's expensive, but I'd either have to go with that or 2-3 Starlink RV dishes instead.
It’s prudent to have a backup plan. Go test that the cellular option will work on-site as a worst case before getting deeply committed. If digital cellular works for bare minimum and the carrier has an uncapped plan then go for it. Here I have two other options that can still get me on zoom at least if starlink fails.
If you need to WFH, even occasionally, don't do it.
Microwave??? How expensive must that be/month
I know a guy that had to get commercial grade fiber internet because all the options for him did not work out, he streams and does YouTube so latency is a big issue for him. He had to ask the township for permission to dig the cables through several blocks. So you know this was not cheap, likely 30-50k and this was on 2020. If you have the kind of money to do that, by all means go ahead.
Just for another data point, my cousin has starlink and it’s really hit or miss. Some days I was there working with no issues and others zoom would cut out very frequently. IMO you don’t want to be the guy on zoom who constantly has to repeat himself or ask others to, if you WFH it’s not worth the trouble.
I have a house i the countries and a local isp boosts UniFi signal at 30mps. I love it
Lowball the offer and use the remaining funds to get fiber connected
I'm not even sure that would be an option. I asked the nearest ISP with fiber internet if there was a price I could pay to have fiber connected to the house, and their response was that there is no fiber anywhere near the home.
As a tech worker, I feel like not having reliable internet is 100% a deal breaker for buying a home.
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Don’t do it! You’re in for a world of headaches and annoyances.
My boss lives in an suburban area and uses Starlink. Not super rural, but in an area without fiber because all of his wiring is underground and there is no conduit. In any case, he can get by on it but his Zoom cuts out quite a bit. He says his speeds at night go down quite a bit and feels like his area is oversold. The experience you get likely depends on your area.
Yep. I have coworkers who are very rural. They have satellite internet and they can’t use their camera (im sure they don’t mind that) and generally can’t participate in virtual whiteboards or anything that isn’t purely audio. Even then it can be spotty. They end up coming to the office a lot and it’s quite a drive. Sounds awful to me.