Internet provider options what would you do?

[Revving2Redline]

In very rural Missouri Starlink provides by far the best internet we have ever had. When I set up my office and shop later on I will getting a second setup for it. Total lifesaver out here.

The lifesaver is living out of the city.

 

[alarmguy]

Looks like it's unanimous I should check out the fiber . I would just get the 250/250, we have the 1G here and it gets a workout with two teenage boys with multiple monitors and both TV's upstairs on Youtube at the same time.Down there it'll mostly be just me and her. This property is quite as rural as my parents, they barely have cell phone coverage being next to the national guard.

“just”???
250/250 is all you will be able to use and far above what you need. I wish my provider would let me downgrade from 500/500 to 250/250

 

[PandaBear]

Fiber for sure for now. If you think the price later is too high you can always switch to 5G later. Starlink should not be a priority option if you can get 5G or fiber to begin with.

Latency is the problem as well as the possibility of oversold capacity or weather related problem. How much of a price difference are we talking about here?

1Gb/s I can see, but 2Gb/s and higher just makes me giggle. How many people have 10Gb/s switches, WiFi access points running 802.11ax, or even know how to set ax up to get even 1 Gb/s WiFi throughput?

Then you get into application performance. It's part of what I did for 30 years. Very few internet users need 1Gb/s throughput and if they do it's always for moving large files. I saw businesses with 100Gb/s internet and would congest it from time to time, but they had tens of thousands of sessions and were doing SAN replication.

It's just a myth that if you get blazing fiber internet speeds, that your gaming will perform better. However, confirmation bias is a powerful tool to justify > 1Gb/s speeds.

The AWS regional data center you are talking to is probably not going to support anything above 150mbps for individual anyways. Unless you have a lot of people in the family office it is not really going to be a bottleneck.

 

[SOUNDMAN5000]

Hey OP, I have had T-Mobil cell phones for years but after installing a metal roof my reception on my 2nd floor is not a perfect mix .
I did try the T-Mobil home internet...T-Mobil will let you TRY that home internet for 2 weeks or a month? I forget but I tried it and worked okay but was only able to get one bar because of my tin roof so I did return it. You can place it in your window and aim at a tower but I guess i'm on the edge or in a dead spot, In my area T-Mobil works great a block from my house!

T-Mobil Home internet is a great price. If you get good signal on your home phone it I bet will work well.
Unless you are a gamer or a graphic arts person uploading huge files or have a bunch of home cameras uploading huge amounts of data or even if you do why not try it FREE? The return process was easer than picking the unit up so I do encourage you to try iy as at a worse case would only cost you (2) trips to the T-Mobil store ot let them send you one...

However nothing beats the speed of fiber but for that low price of T-Mobil I may consider it as back up internet the few time my ISP has an issue...

 

[wander2039]

Went a different route.. Didn’t want to deal with more of the ground being tore up and wanted something easy to install. No cell options so just went with Starlink. $15 off for 4 months.. went with 100. Going to mount it on the 6x6 with the cameras. Have it temp setup for tonight.

 

[wander2039]

Install complete… Had a storm few hours after got it setup and didn’t notice any difference. No complaints so far. If the prices stay reasonable will stick with it even after we move down here.

 

[SOUNDMAN5000]

Thats impressive! I love that kinda stuff!

 

[Skippy722]

We finally got fiber through frontier and I could tell comcast to kick rocks! 500/500, they offer up to 7 gig symmetrical. Using their Eero mesh routers.

Not bad for wifi on my phone.

 

[wwillson]

they offer up to 7 gig symmetrical.

As you know from spending 35 years working in the carrier space, 7 Gb/s to a home just makes me giggle.

 

[4wd]

As you know from spending 35 years working in the carrier space, 7 Gb/s to a home just makes me giggle.

I know - we need 100 times that !