I live in a rural area with no options for cable or DSL. I tried Hughes Net once and had terrible experiences with it. But that was a number of years ago and hopefully they have improved. I just don’t want to take a chance with them again. Plus bad weather knocks out the service.
I found a fixed wireless internet company “Nexus Systems” a year or so ago that offered 3 Mbps up and down. I opted for it. That worked to my satisfaction until I retired. I’m paying $65.50 a month for that service
I could stream a movie without buffering.
I now have a 4K TV and I can’t stream a 4K movie with 3Mbps down.
Other problems are the tower goes out several times a day for short periods of time and has been down for several days at least a couple times.
The good things, weather doesn’t affect it. I had a no data limit.
AT&T just recently added a Fixed Wireless Internet for my area so I checked into it. The Installation and service Tech for AT&T is my cousin so I questioned him about it and did a bit of research.
I opted to have the service installed and bundled in with my DirecTV. I’ll be saving $26 a month since swapping service.
The service is $50 a month with a 170GB Cap; if I go over I get 50GB more for $10 up to $200. But I don’t see the wife and me exceeding the Cap since we don’t game and only watch a few movies a week.
AT&T guarantees 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up but my cousin says most people he has hooked up get 25Mbps down or more and around 10Mbps up.
I’m getting it hooked up this afternoon. I pray it works well compared to what I had.
I'll let you know before long.