for those that live in an area with no high profile internet carriers

[pantherlj]

what do you do for high speed internet? A house we are looking at buying doesn't have Time Warner Cable or Charter (the 2 main carriers in our area). What do you do for internet? Satellite? do they do internet high speed?

 

[Lisa71]

We use Verizon ..we cannot get the others either..it works fine.

 

[DawnM]

BEWARE!

If you can't get cable or DSL, you will have to get Satellite or a hotspot. Satellite and hotspots have limits on how much you can use. It will not be unlimited like cable or DSL is.

 

[pantherlj]

BEWARE!

If you can't get cable or DSL, you will have to get Satellite or a hotspot. Satellite and hotspots have limits on how much you can use. It will not be unlimited like cable or DSL is.

we are in trouble if not unlimited - we do lots of streaming. There has to be a solution?

 

[BubMunkeyBles]

We have a couple DSL/cable internet providers and only one offers unlimited at snail slow speeds. So for fast internet and a decent size package we pay almost $100. I guess since options are limited they get away with it.

 

[Deb & Bill]

Via land line. We have AT&T DSL.

 

[DawnM]

If you cannot get DSL or cable, there is no solution. I have a few friends dealing with this right now. Believe me, they have tried. One had the cable company tell them that for $8,000 they could run the line to their house. I guess that is a solution of sorts.

we are in trouble if not unlimited - we do lots of streaming. There has to be a solution?

 

[left210]

Do you by chance have a cell phone that was grandfathered in with unlimited data plan thru Verizon?

 

[richmond282]

We have high speed internet through our electric company. It's way better than Charter. Costs us $75/ month for cable and internet. You might want to check with your utility companies as well to see if they offer anything.

 

[stm61]

welcome to our world. We have no cable or DSL in our rural area. It's all around us, just not here. It's like they drew a circle and decided not to run any lines in this area for whatever reason. Anyway, you are now entering the oh so wonderful world of over priced satellite internet. You now have the privilege of paying astronomical prices for slower speeds so you can run out of bandwidth by the 20th of each month. Then you can choose to either pay even more money or deal with even slower speeds until your account resets on the 1st of the next month. I use Wildblue, the only other provider in my area is HughesNet and I'd heard to many horror stories about their customer service. I pay $90 for their 2nd tier of bandwidth (blanking on the amount of bandwidth), and I usually get a 70% usage warning around the 15th of every month. I've banned my kids from the internet, I don't do any streaming if I can avoid it, and I play Gardens of Time once a week. I don't even go on line every day and I'm still out of bandwidth before the end of the month. The next highest tier of bandwidth is over $130 and I refuse to pay that much just for internet.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

what do you do for high speed internet? A house we are looking at buying doesn't have Time Warner Cable or Charter (the 2 main carriers in our area). What do you do for internet? Satellite? do they do internet high speed?

My husband wouldn't buy the house. No access to high speed internet? Forget it.
He also wouldn't buy a house if he didn't have good satellite dish access through trees.
When we were looking at houses 13 years ago, we ran into that issue often and he wouldn't even go inside the house to look around.

My sister used Hughesnet (sp?) for a couple of years but hated it. Now she uses her mobile hotspot on her cellphone because it has unlimited data. But they don't do streaming at all.

 

[bigbabyblues]

welcome to our world. We have no cable or DSL in our rural area. It's all around us, just not here. It's like they drew a circle and decided not to run any lines in this area for whatever reason. Anyway, you are now entering the oh so wonderful world of over priced satellite internet. You now have the privilege of paying astronomical prices for slower speeds so you can run out of bandwidth by the 20th of each month. Then you can choose to either pay even more money or deal with even slower speeds until your account resets on the 1st of the next month. I use Wildblue, the only other provider in my area is HughesNet and I'd heard to many horror stories about their customer servicw.

You might live near my ILs (j/k). They have the same issue, and they have WildBlue also. They hate it.

 

[CarlisleMom]

check the local phone company.

For us no high speed internet would be a deal killer since DH works from home 2x's a week and occasionally get a phone call to deal with an emergency any other day.

 

[DawnM]

But it is still cable, with cable lines. If the OP doesn't have access to the cable lines to get cable, it still won't work.

We have high speed internet through our electric company. It's way better than Charter. Costs us $75/ month for cable and internet. You might want to check with your utility companies as well to see if they offer anything.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey12]

You might want to nix the whole idea of using your unlimited data on your phone as a hot spot. AT&T calls that tethering and if you do that with your grandfathered unlimited data plan through them they will discontinue your unlimited data plan with no warning and you will never get it back. This came directly from AT&T so you might want to check with your phone carrier before trying that.

 

[left210]

You might want to nix the whole idea of using your unlimited data on your phone as a hot spot. AT&T calls that tethering and if you do that with your grandfathered unlimited data plan through them they will discontinue your unlimited data plan with no warning and you will never get it back. This came directly from AT&T so you might want to check with your phone carrier before trying that.

You are allowed to do this with Verizon. You have to have the unlimited data and a 4g phone. You then can buy an unlimited data plan for an additional $30 per month. THe kicker is you are never allowed to upgrade your phone at the reduced rates because you then lose your unlimited data plan so you either have to pay full retail for your new phone or upgrade another line and then transfer that phone to the unlimited phone number line.

 

[Ephany]

We use our local phone company. The only thing is that we HAVE to have a landline in order to get DSL internet. I know that it's not that way in all of the areas this company services, but they get away with it here. We need a landline anyway for the alarm system, but I don't like the fact they're our only choice. I think the phone runs about $25 a month. DH just called and had them change our DSL plan so we get 15 megabites a month for $30.

My BF moved into a new community and didn't have At&T or anything else for 2 1/2 years. I told DH if that'd been us, we wouldn't have bought that home.

 

[pantherlj]

Thanks for all the input. This is very disappointing but I am really glad we figured it out before we made an offer. We were having a hard time deciding between 2 really great properties but I do work from home some, so does DH. And, with a teenager and preteen that have grown up with streaming everything - it would be hard to give up.

I checked on AT&T and it's only 1.5Mbps download at one property, not even available at the other property.

Back to the drawing board - and we are down to the wire, we close on our current home January 30th!! I hope we can get this done in time.

I don't have an unlimited phone data package so that's not even an option.

 

[DawnM]

Oh, and just to clarify, if the phone company has not run DSL lines where you are, you still may be able to get phone service and NOT internet.

This is the case for my friends who live a bit out in the country. They can get phone service as those lines were run decades ago, but they can't get DSL because the phone company has not run the wires necessary for DSL.

We use our local phone company. The only thing is that we HAVE to have a landline in order to get DSL internet. I know that it's not that way in all of the areas this company services, but they get away with it here. We need a landline anyway for the alarm system, but I don't like the fact they're our only choice. I think the phone runs about $25 a month. DH just called and had them change our DSL plan so we get 15 megabites a month for $30.

My BF moved into a new community and didn't have At&T or anything else for 2 1/2 years. I told DH if that'd been us, we wouldn't have bought that home.

 

[DawnM]

I am glad you found it out too.

We have some friends who moved to the "country" recently and didm 't know or check first.

It has been a nightmare trying to get internet. They finality got Satellite, but it is expensive and they don't have enough to stream anything with. They only check their email and surf a bit.

Thanks for all the input. This is very disappointing but I am really glad we figured it out before we made an offer. We were having a hard time deciding between 2 really great properties but I do work from home some, so does DH. And, with a teenager and preteen that have grown up with streaming everything - it would be hard to give up.

I checked on AT&T and it's only 1.5Mbps download at one property, not even available at the other property.

Back to the drawing board - and we are down to the wire, we close on our current home January 30th!! I hope we can get this done in time.

I don't have an unlimited phone data package so that's not even an option.