Home internet

[georgelesley]

We just bought a new to us home near Erwin,TN. The previous owner had dsl. I called the provider prior to offering a contract on the house and were told to just call back when we needed service.

When I called yesterday to establish service I was told in our area the dsl capacity is used up. Cable is not available.

It appears satellite or cell is our only option. We has Dish hi speed previously and it works fairly well, but we would prefer more gigs at less cost. We also have a Verizon hotspot we use when RV'ing which would work.

A local Verizon store recommends their "Fusion" system. Any comments on it?

We use about 5-8 gigs a month which any of the cell or satellite based systems will easily handle, but had hoped to start streaming movies but unless we can find something cheaper per gig we won't be doing that.

We have a cell tower nearby and the Verizon signal is strong. Since we are quite close to an interstate I assume all carriers will be the same. Ideas?

[sdianel_-acct_c]

When we had a stick house we dropped cable and DSL and went with DirecTV for satellite and Verizon Mi-Fi for internet. We got extra satellite boxes for the RV. Changed from desk top to laptop computer.
For movies we use DirecTV pay per view.
You have to watch your Verizon usage and not stream movies but it's much simpler for us that way.

[georgelesley]

joebedford wrote:
Is there no terrestrial microwave in your area? Lots of rural areas have that where dsl or cable doesn't exist.

What is that?

BTW, what puzzled us was that a month before when we called the provider this problem was not mentioned and the house had dsl from the same provider at the time we first looked at it.

[2oldman]

georgelesley wrote:
We have a cell tower nearby and the Verizon signal is strong. Since we are quite close to an interstate I assume all carriers will be the same. Ideas?

I wouldn't assume that at all.

Only ATT is likely to be as good as V. Sprint et al, not so much.

[joebedford]

Is there no terrestrial microwave in your area? Lots of rural areas have that where dsl or cable doesn't exist.

[joebedford]

DSL eventually shares capacity. Yes the line to the house is 'your' phone line but there is infrastructure that those lines connect to that is shared.

[K_Charles]

We have no cable on our road and no cell service so I called the phone company, they said we were to far from the switch (whatever that means) to get DSL. I asked if they could test the line and when they did they said we could have DSL, it has been working fine for years.

[Hiker_01]

I'm really not sure how DSL capacity could be used up, unless they are speaking to the local telephone company. DSL runs on a separate phone line to each house so you do not share capacity except in number of telephone lines available. The only other thing that would make sense is if the server at the ISP is unable to support another line. You might want to call them back and ask for a better explanation and see if there is a waiting list you can be put on.