Looking for some real-world answers here, not what the ad says on the mailer. I'm out on Lost Creek Parkway and work from home Tuesday through Thursday, mostly video calls and some big file uploads. Right now what we have is fine on a dry day, but the last couple of spring storms it dropped out completely, once for most of an afternoon, and I ended up sitting in my truck at the end of the driveway using my phone as a hotspot. Which only half worked, because cell service out here is spotty at best.
That's the other part. Cell drops on parts of 330 and at the end of some of the side roads, so a hotspot is not really a backup plan for me. I need something at the house that doesn't fall over every time it rains.
So who do you use at your place, and what do you actually get when you run a speed test? Not the plan speed, the number you see at 7pm on a Friday when everybody's streaming. I've heard Starlink, Ritter, and T-Mobile's home internet thrown around but I don't know who's really happy and who's just not complaining yet. Curious about a few things:
- whether it holds up in a thunderstorm or heavy rain
- how upload looks, since that's what kills me on calls
- whether tree cover matters (we've got a lot of oaks and I'd hate to find out the hard way)
- install cost and any contract gotchas
If you're on the same road or near it, even better, since it seems like it changes street to street up here. I'll report back on whatever I end up going with. Tomatoes are going in this weekend so I'd like to have this sorted before I get distracted out in the garden again.