Thank you so much Expletus!
I admit I had given up checking to see if other services were available because half the time I looked my search would time out or I would get DNS entry errors constantly. My bucket was emptying out just from loading Tumblr or Facebook.
I've been stuck with satellite internet since 2001. It wasn't so bad before Hughesnet took over, raised the prices, lowered the bandwidth limit, and increased the cap.
I'll spare you my rant about it, but I can't tell you how excited I am to finally have a chance to tell Huhesnet where to shove it.
Anyway, I'm excited because after about an hour of trying to get things to load we finally got to see that Verizon and Sprint now claim to cover our area. Verizon says it has 3G. We also see that AT&T has strengthened the signal so we are in "moderate" area. My brother can get 2 bars when he's in the house near a window (although he can't get any webpages to load).
I saw that Millinicom has a bring your own equipment plan where if you have the right equipment you just sign up for their unlimited service plan for $69 a month. My current Hughesnet crap is $80 so it will save me money and more headaches.
I read that some people prefer to cut out the Millenicom middleman and just go straight to one of the other companies, but I haven't seen any of them offering unlimited service.
I suppose I should call Millenicom and find out what equipment I will need (from what I understand the equipment they provide-- particularly the router-- is a piece of garbage and they charge $15 to ship something when it should only cost $5).
What repeater/antenna do you have and how difficult is it to install? I'm clueless when it comes to this sort of thing since I'm so behind the times. I really didn't think much about cellphones and such since I don't use mine very much.
How reliable is the service? Do you get outages?
When you say you get 0.5.. Do you mean 0.5Mb down/up?
Even though I am allegedly supposed to get 1.2mb down and 50k up, I get more like 300k down on a very good day and 30k up if I'm lucky. I mostly get less than 100k down...
Thank you so much for the links and information. *hugs*
Is a "public" server one where it doesn't have to be online but can be shared by a LAN?
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