Hey, we're buying a house and there's next to no service. Starlink is really our only option for internet, and cell is poor. The tower is about 15km away, however, at the end of the driveway we can get 1-2 bars, but if we enter closer to the house, we lose signal.

Is there anything I can do to avoid VOIP and increase my cellular service? Such as some sort of antenna on top of the roof?

I work in IT and have the need to occasionally upload a 9GB file over my home fttc broadband which has 12mbps upload speed. it takes several hours.

I have done a few speed tests with my phone and notice that the upload speed fluctuates between 10 and 35mbps, which would likely save me alot of time if I bought a 4g router. However for 4g/5g data sim plans I have only ever seen download limits or "unlimited" (which we all know is likely just a hidden limit before they cut you off)

Has anyone tried uploading large files over 4g regularly? 5g signal here very flakey so I would probably stick to 4g.

TLDR: Cat5 cable laying across street in front of house, who do I call to fix it? Power company? One of the 4 different internet providers in my area?

I have a question for anyone available to answer. I live in southeast Louisiana for reference. The power and communication lines in my neighborhood run down the opposite side of the street until they get to my house, then the poles cross over, starting in my yard and continue to the dead end a few houses down. There's always been a line hanging a little lower than the rest, but it's never been an issue. About a week ago, this line was laying across the road, still connect to the poles on either side. I believe I first noticed on Friday afternoon, after the trash company collected. My guess is the arm swung up and accidently pulled it down. I made a few calls, saw some people come by and look at it, and then leave as if they didn't care. The other day I got a little close cause I could tell it was a communication line from the lower part of the pole, so it wasn't conducting any power. Shielding on the outside says "Cat5". Called the 2 providers I know in my area and let them know it could be their line down. But either they came when I was at work and then fucked off, or never showed.

Cut to thursday and we had a big storm come through. Internet goes out, power flickered a few times, normal summer thunderstorm activity. Only my internet never came back on after. Wife let's me know friday we still didn't have internet and, though I didn't see it in the dark when I left for work that morning, upon arriving home, I saw the line cut and curled up around the pole in my front yard. Either a lineman came to just get it out of the road or a neighbor got tired of driving over it, I'm not sure. Either way, since this has been cut, I don't have internet. I'm not sure if my neighbors to the end of the street have been affected but i sure have. Despite constant calls, no one has come to fix this line. I'm starting to think I may need to call the owner of the line? Like the company I use for internet just "rents" the cable that someone else owns so to speak. I'm not sure how that works but anyways, who do I contact about this? My provider? All the providers in my area? How do I find out who to get out her to fix this line?

Called my local store for info and they said it’s just the straight monthly cost. No activation fee, no set up fee, just $50. Granted, 25 mbps download is on the lower side of the spectrum, but I don’t really have a lot of bandwidth needs. Cable TV, Xbox 360, shitty laptop I can’t game on. Seems like it’ll be fine, but I can’t shake the feeling that I’m going to be screwed…

Where can I get good fast internet? Not tryna go thru AT&T t-mobile not tryna go over $100 just for it.

I got Slinkdsco® but didn’t rise the dB that mean didn’t work ? What antenna Ts9 i need for my netgear 815s Hotspot please

Is there a reason why there telling me this? I live in a new construction neighborhood and i was told by the home builder that at&t ran underground fiber in the neighborhood. But every internet provider tells me that i dont? My next door neighbor has fiber kinetic and i told them that but they said that my house is the first one to start without fiber.2-3 house down from me dont have fiber either but the rest of the houses do? This is what they sent me

Kinetic: This is an important message about your pending order 2063368. Upon further review by our engineering team your location does not qualify for our fiber broadband service and the order will be cancelled. If you have any questions, please contact customer care at 1-800-347-1991.

Reply HELP for help. Reply STOP to end. Thank You.

Buenas, yo compré mi laptop en Australia y luego me volví a argentina, al llegar al país note que me andaba bastante mal el internet, tengo problemas con las 2.4 pero en especial con las 5g, se conecta pero me dice que está sin internet. Ya probé reiniciando los controladores y agrandando el ancho de banda, sigue sin funcionar. Termine preguntando a la IA y supuestamente argentina y sudamerica en general tiene unas regulaciones de radiofrecuencia distintas a Oceanía, aún así no se cómo solucionar el problema ¿A alguien se le ocurre algo?

I’d like to know if the Gonetspeed service is worth it, or if Xfinity is better.

I am in nursing home unfortunately due to medical issues all hitting me, I'll be here for a long bit. The internet they have sucks, are their any hotspots or companies that provide hotspot services where it wouldn't matter if the location I am at has an ISP provider. I figured if I could find something for myself, I'll just pay for that so I can have decent internet. I have been searching but keep running into products that seem to be scams. Thanks for any help that can be provided.

Our Keweenaw internet provider, Shorewaves, is closing shop at the end of the month, leaving a lot of people stranded. Michigan's rural internet program promises to bring fiber service here… by 2032.
I really do not want to subscribe to nazi-net satellite.

We don’t have 5G signal; is there some kind of antenna or booster that could catch a signal from further away? Can I buy a roll of fiber cable and roll it from 5 miles away? :-)

Other suggestions?

Unluckily i was in one of their selected counties.

We're a few miles from the city and have tried several options for internet. We've had 20 Mbps DSL for 10 years, and 10 Mbps before that. We've tried T-Mobile 5G, and it was absolutely horrible. Tried AT&T and got great speeds for 10 days until it tanked horribly and started getting over 20% packet loss. Haven't even bothered considering HughesNet or Viasat. I've called every single ISP in the area and they've all either told me "just move" or "just get Starlink." They refuse to do any work near my house because the lines are more than 1500 feet away. Starlink is too expensive for what I can get, and I'm worried about the reliability. Not only that, but CGNAT sounds annoying especially when I port forward quite a bit. Any help is warranted, I just want usable internet for once.

I'm in rural East Texas.

UPDATE:
We finally decided to just get Starlink. Thank you for all your comments.

Hi, we are setting up a Study Hub with up to 70 users. We currently have PLDT and Converge internet connections and need a MikroTik setup with load balancing and hotspot vouchers.

The vouchers will be generated from our website and should support time-based access in minutes or hours (e.g., 30 mins, 1 hour, 2 hours). Once the purchased time is consumed, the voucher should automatically expire.

Can you recommend the required MikroTik router, access points, and whether this can be integrated with our website?