BEST Off Grid Internet? | Better Than Starlink? | Fixed Wireless Internet REVIEW 

I've been using AT&T fixed wireless for about a year now and I'm extremely satisfied by it. I'm about 7 miles away from the tower (completely out of sight even with my drone) with some miner trees in the distance breaking line of sight. Download is typically about 87 Mbps, upload 19 Mbps, and ping varies from 50 to 100 ms. I purchased my plan during a special offer of 500 GB per month for $60 per month. That is now a permanent feature of my plan (lucky me!!). If you do use more data than what's on your plan, they will charge you $15 to double your data amount (just for that month). In my case, that would be an additional 500 GB, but probably in all of your cases, it would be 250 GB. (Just for a frame of reference, if you go over your limited data plan on a Verizon cellular plan, they charge $15 per additional 1 GB... A single GB!! Gee, that's so generous, Verizon.) I'd like to give some extra details about AT&T fixed wireless: Of course, you're signal strength is determined on how far you are from the tower and how many obstacles are in the way. The max range away from the tower you can typically be is about 9 miles. Any further and the signal strength with suffer. A few trees will have minimal effect on the signal. Though, if the tower is far away while also having to go through a thick forest, that can cause a low signal. You cannot get a good signal going straight through a building. Also, walking within 5 feet directly in front of the antenna will decrease the signal, and thus decrease speeds. Your download and upload speed can be significantly effected by how many other people are using fixed wireless on that exact same tower. So if you live in the middle of nowhere, your speeds should be great! Ping is also greatly effected on the antenna's signal strength and the amount of users on the same tower. If any hardware needs to be repaired, there is absolutely no fee to have it fixed or replaced. My antenna was just struck be lightening, which completely fried it. It was replaced, again, for free. I absolutely recommend AT&T fixed wireless! Extremely cheep for the performance and is very reliable. It's comparable to some lower teared fiber optic plans but it's even cheaper. But keep in mind, the more people that are using fixed wireless on the same tower as you are, the slower your speeds will be. So I recommend you DON'T go telling everyone who lives near you to go get fixed wireless. XD I hope this was valuable information!

I’m glad you’re having a good experience with them. I was one of the first to get it in my area too. It was great….until it wasn’t. I literally saw a guy going up the tower. They decided they needed to relieve congestion in a different part of the county and mine and neighbors in this cone area lost signal. It took me close to a year to get disconnected, the whole time getting billed with no service. The techs would come out because that was their job, but knowing they couldn’t fix anything. They confirmed that the tower antennas had been moved and said it was up to engineering to fix it. In the end this is the worst company to deal with if you have a problem that requires past a service call. They will flat out lie because you have no way to report them. Their overseas support will just hang up and delete your trouble ticket. My favorite one was tier 2 saying “even though you have a red light on service and there is no signal, try running a Speedtest. Sometimes it might still work”. Oh boy. We’re dealing with a bright one this time. It’s been out for six months. Good luck though, but I just felt they don’t deserve a shout out. I don’t mean anything in this negative toward you and the channel. I love your channel. They are basically taking advantage of people who have no option and sucking in that free government money from the Connect America fund and knocking out the company’s that could actually bring fiber to the rural communities.

Been using Starlink for two years now, started at $99/mo for 200/40... In those two years price jumped to $110/mo then $120/mo.... but speeds have slowed to 100/18 (approx.) We also are in the middle of the woods in Northern WI, about 4 miles outside of a 200 person village and about 35 miles from the nearest stop light. HOWEVER, a local ISP just did a fiber expansion and pulled fiber to our house for free, and next month they will throw the switch ON to 1GB/1GB symmetrical for $60/month. I love Starlink, but I'm likely pulling the plug on them in a couple months.

I have 3 Starlink systems and all of them run at 150MB or better. The slowest rates might get down to 100mb. Speeds are improving as more satellites are being deployed.

Fixed Wireless is LTE it's exactly the same as what serves your handset on your cell phone the only difference is how many channels are bonded together the specification is known as cat12 16 or 20

As always Tim, you knocked it out of the park. great info and I also use ATT here at my home. Average 47.8 download and 12.2 Upload. Takes me almost no time to upload a video to youtube.

Something to say at least from my families and my perspective (our properties) I always set up all internet stuff for everyone in the family. For any of these companies/isps/cellular companies is that ideally you want whatever it is; the antenna, the dish, the whatever... up high and in a clear area. No trees blocking it or anything. Then test around that area or another area even if it's a few acres away (on your own property of course) and test it multiple times. Get a power bank like a jackery setup starlink or whatever and just drive around your property for the best possible signal. Once you find the place with the best signal it doesn't matter if it's way out at the edge of your property that's where the dish/antenna needs to go. I have set up nine systems for me and my family so far. I either build or buy a tower (can be made out of whatever but if made out of wood just realize it will eventually rot). I've been using flag poles with a flat base on top for a while now they work pretty well there are limits to what you can do in terms of height but I'd go as high as you safely can. Attach everything on the ground and then put up the pole. At the base you are going to want to get yourself a battery in a weather proof box and get some solar panels and lay them out running all the necessary cables and what not if you don't have power all the way out there. As more sats are added you may be able to change the position later on, and if you start getting not so good service you should change it. I'm sure your wondering then... "how do I get my router connected if it's half a mile away?" Don't run ethernet... run fiber. People don't realize that you can go on amazon or sometimes even hardware stores and get it ordered in and buy pre-terminated fiber optic direct burial cable for literally $100 for a few hundred meters. You can get even more and run kilometers of it. There are two main kinds of fiber cable single mode and multi-mode. When I first did this setup I ran multi-mode because it was the cheapest and longest I could get at the time without using any specialized equipment to terminate the ends with. However for very very long distances single mode is the go to choice and it's come down in price... AND you can get it pre-terminated on amazon and other stores. I buy cable in bulk from the source (China based/Asia based) just because I can get a ton of it for cheap. I also invested in a thousand dollar single fusion splicer (I do this for a living now for other neighbors who are tired of having horrible internet) I got on amazon. Believe it or not it may seem like a lot but it's really pretty easy to do and will probably only take you a few hours to do even with hand tools (as long as there are no rocks in your path back to your house) I just use a simple spade shovel that goes into the ground about ten inches. I do fifty feet at a time then put the cable in and close up the ground by stepping on either side of it. At least with Starlink, but also likely the other ISP companies/products you will have to turn off the wifi router in the settings but once you get back to your house you plug the fiber into another adapter that goes out to ethernet and then that goes into your router you have at home. There is more to it than all that though... devil in the details and all but with a video tutorial or a few on RU-vid I think anyone would be able to do it for around $300 and in four hours depending on a lot of factors of course. Your essentially just weather proofing and plugging things in. You don't have to terminate any fiber or ethernet at all. Anyway this is not advice just my personal experiences. I hope it gives someone some help and a starting off point. As far as speed, latency/ping, and jitter goes my family and I get about 200mbps to 265mbps with 35ms ping, and jitter about 65-150ms I have seen similar or slightly less with my family members they don't have commercial grade more DIY routers like I do but it certainly does the job. Peace!!

Hi, I’m in Rural Western Australia.. completely off grid. With virtually no cell phone signal either. Just this week I got sky mesh installed. I believe it would be a similar thing it’s fixed wireless Internet. They came out and put a little dish on my roof. It looks similar to your one. The install was free and also the equipment. I pay AU$85 a month for unlimited downloads. So far, the speeds of been pretty good too

I have at&t fixed wireless too. I live less than a 1/4 of a mile from the tower. Multiple subscribers. Download 12, upload 9 tested a few minutes ago. It usually averages 9 download and 6 upload. I was one of the first to get it and received similar results as you. I saw the speed gradually reduced. I got them to come out and test it and was told that it slowed down due to the number of subscribers. I can still watch RU-vid and Netflix so I still subscribe. We've had a few occasions that something has gone wrong at the tower. Pray this doesn't happen on Friday because you'll be lucky have it back by Monday. Fixed wireless customers are not a priority for at&t. It was paid for with a federal grant to bring broadband to rural areas. They got their money and seem uninterested in providing good service or upgrades. I've had fixed wireless for over 3 years and watched service deteriorate steadily. I predict that I'll be cutting trees for Star link before too long.

G'day Tim. Really good information in this video. I moved us to Starlink, as fixed wireless, another satellite service and 4G mobile are my only options. Australia does not have unlimited mobile data and 4G is sketch anyway here in the bush. * 4g mobile data would cost a fortune and reception is not great. * Fixed wireless offers up to 75 down and 10 up, but it slows down terribly due to congestion (too many users) at peak times and reflections on wet foliage can impact the data being sent. Fixed wireless here depends in line of sight and distance from the tower. * The satellite option costs a small fortune on data here and speeds are ok and latency is average at best. * Starlink gives us an average of 200 download and 20 upload most of the time. Severe clouds and rain can reduce speeds, but it's manageable. Storms can cut it out. We don't get many storms thankfully. Initial cost for hardware was painful and monthly subscription is higher than average. Oh and we are fortunate to have a clear line of sight above the horizon it must face. Having said that, Starlink is up 99% of the time and we have 9 people in this house streaming Netflix etc, gaming and YouTubing constantly and it does not miss a beat. Glad to pay the extra with no affordable option and definitely no cable. Really enjoyed this video mate. Thanks for taking to time to create it and share. All the best. Daz.

Fixed wireless is nothing new. I had it from an independent provider for over 10 years at $65 a month with unlimited data. We got VERY reliable 25/5 Mbps. My provider sold out to a local fiber provider that doesn't serve our area with fiber and then shut it down. AT&T and Verizon are the players here but offer no home internet options. We used Visible for a few months and then we discovered we were in a fringe coverage area for T-Mobiles new extended range 5G. I got them to send a "gateway" to test. I was blown away. We are over 4 miles NOT line of sight from a tower. I get consistent 50/8 Mbps speeds. In winter, when the leaves are off the trees, we get closer to 100/15 Mbps speeds. All unlimited data for a fixed $50 a month. No deposits, no installation charge, etc. Occasionally, there is a brief slowing due to a storm or a peak use time but never not useable. T-Mobile is using old 600 mhz tech from UHF television band to get coverage out into rural areas. It penetrates foliage even better than 900 mhz did years ago.

Ive been using att fixed wireless for 3 years now. It started out fantastic with 50 download and 15 to 20 upload. Now everyone that lives around me has it and the towers full. Most days im lucky to get 7 to 9 download and .7 to 3 upload. But its been decent and reliable so i cant complain about it. Ive been on starlinks waitlist for 2 years now, but there is a new light at the end of the tunnel my light company is running fiber with supposed 1 gigabyte download speed. So fingers crossed on that.

I will stay with StarLink no restrictions nice clear picture and the only problem with rain it has to be pouring where you can't see 50 ft away is the only way your internet stops Download is 143.96 mbps up load is 8.94 mbps and its more than what I need I don't believe people are cutting all these trees down! Maybe this guy works for ATT???

One thing you did not mention about Starlink is that it tis still in its infancy stage where less than 40% of the satellites have been launched (of 12,000) with a possible expansion of an additional tripling(to 40,000). This means that the coverage and speeds will improve as they increase the satellite numbers.

I've had Starlink for 7 months now and had been nothing but impressed with it...until two weeks ago when the router started going out. Everything I had done wouldn't fix it, the tech support they have is horrible and nobody responds. And for the price of it, I'm fed up. Thank you for this video because I think I have found my answer to my situation. AT&T just put up several towers in my area so I'm optimistic it will be just what I need.

Sounds great for fixed internet. We need Wi-Fi for 3 month starting January while in the desert of Arizona. I wish there was something cheaper than Starlink , but I guess that’s all that’s available now . Thx Tim . 💕

NICE TO KNOW - This system uses Microwave Transmission. I used to set up something similar 20 years ago to give New Homes being built internet access to the Trailer for the builder. Mine pointed at the top of a mountain 30 miles away.

I live in rural Virginia and was gonna go with Starlink, but just in the nick of time my county installed fiber optic and you can’t get much better with fiber, Unbelievable upload and download speeds.

On our farm, no ISP available , as a youtuber and full time job is a Cloud Engineer so high speed is necessary, our choice was Starlink. It’s been outstanding. Yes, if storms get bad we lose connection. But, reliability is great majority of the time. I’m curious if we have this in our area.

I live in the desert and having internet for streaming has been so hard! We went the Starlink route just to find out that it's terrible for streaming! But found a local service similar to what you have that uses direct beams

I’m rural and on T-Mobile home internet. No antennas outside. I have their little gateway sitting on a table next to a window. I just ran a speed test this morning and I got 418 mbps down and 12.8 up. $40 a month unlimited no contract or installation fees. I also have their app so I can log into my gateway wirelessly with my cell phone and look at all the stats and preform other task.

I'm prepping a video Starlink vs Hughes Net and came along your video, very nice and educational. I haven't heard of this option before. I wasn't looking for anything having to do with ATT because we don't get any cell service where we are located. Again, nice job and hope you have a successful 2023.

We had that but I cancelled it and got Starlink .It was ok but we never got those kinds of speeds mostly around 25 down and about 5 up.I really like Starlink much better than that we had 400 gb of data I guess it depends on where you are located .On Starlink I get from 60-200 download speeds about 12-15 up we have the dish on a roof no obstructions anymore we did have to get a friend with a buckettruck to help us move it to the right place on the roof after one tree was obstructing it.I really do not miss fixed wireless at all but whatever works for you then you should use it.

Another great video Tim. Interesting. We had to install a tower at the ranch to get a signal from above the trees. A real forest there…

I used to install fixed Wireless with AT&T and it really matters where you put the antenna the higher is the better

Did you know you can distribute your signal via an antenna just like a radio signal via WiFi hotspot. If local people set up hubs of Antenna like pirate radio stations used to we could create our own local networks. 🤔👍😜

I’m glad you’re happy with your service. I’m even more glad I’m didn’t fall for your sales pitch. I’ll keep my Starlink. FYI your numbers on Starlink are much better then your advertising. Have a good day!

Glad your back, Tim! Blessings

Good info, thanks. By the way, upload/download speeds are in megabits, not megabytes. It’s an 8x difference.

Starlink is mainly made for ones that are out nowhere where there are no cell towers or a Fixed wireless (WISP) system in place. So that makes it as it always has been. Not one ISP is for everyone. As for going thru trees depends on the Freq.that is used. As I use 5GHz for LOS clients and 2.4GHz for clients with trees in the way when I set up new WISP clients. I have sent internet wirelessly over miles and getting over 200Mbps.

That is great Tim...good to know about other internet services. Have a wonderful day and blessings 💞

I think Starlink still good for us out in the boonies . 200 speed at minimum better than 12 or less with others I had. And no clouds and storms do not affect it . Ours is on a 70 foot pole

I have had starlink for a few months and it has been great I’ve gotten like 220 MBPS down and like 20 or 25 up advantage of the round 175 down. I am still 20 up. and now it does have a soft data cap at 1 tb but we normally just use around 400 to 500mb.

Just a friendly suggestion, cut out all of the extra stuff and just get the point. Nice quality videography like yours doesn’t need to be drawn out forever by too much extra fluff. Just my 2 cents.

compared to where I am here in Southwest VA-- you have a GREAT line of sight-- I have hills all over and around me. (which I'm glad off-- because when major storms mess everybody else up-- I can watch them on radar and they break up and go around me!!)

Thanks for the great video. I did not know about fixed wireless. When you’re running the speed test on your iPhone know your Wi-Fi is on. So are you going to your Wi-Fi out to the Internet are you using cellular service for the Speedtest that’s my question

I've had the AT&T fixed wireless service for about 2 years now. It's great and all but you're limited and what you can do with it, for example there is no port forwarding which means there is no online gaming whatsoever along with the upload speeds being comparable to early 2000s DSL. Other than that it's been quite reliable even during severe weather. My only gripe is $69.99 a month for 300 GB and the lack of port forwarding for online gaming.

Clarifying a few things. The speed is mega "bits" per second, not mega bytes, big diff. The service is still 4g LTE and probably will go 5g soon, so essentially it's just like cellular. The frequencies are also very similar so the reason you have great service is just how consumed it is in your area. You can get the same type of service with standard ATT hotspot/carrier (I have this and the speeds are similar to what you show). As far as the trees, those issues would be identical to cellular since it's the same cell technology and frequencies, so if you have good service then again, it's luck and consumption. I suggest people just choose either a WISP alternative or AT&T, but base it on cost and reputation.

We have the same thing here Tim I guess it varies where you live, we get 13 down load and 2 up load, Great information Tim 👍

I am getting from 150 to 200 down on my StarLink out in South Carolina and 15 to 25 up. I run my RU-vid channel and podcast plus zoom calls, no problem. The problem is $120 a month.

Speed is 1/8th of what you stated. It's Megabits / second (Mbps), not Megabytes / second (MBps). Actually, as I continued watching, you bounced back and forth between bit and byte, so I'm guessing it's just slips of the tongue. However, for those watching that may not know, a byte is 8 bits. Your ISP normally measures their speed in bits (small b) instead of bytes (capital B).

The speeds are not all that impressive to be honest but if it’s reliable and fast enough for your needs it’s an option. Looking for options but currently spoiled being on ATT Fiber at 1Gbps up and down for $100 a month no caps. It’s impossible to find anything comparable where the property we are looking to develop is located. That may be about to change though touch wood

T-P is taking his starling from Texas where it worked good and now he halfway around the world using it and traveling around using it , and it’s working fine

My Star Link works with clouds. Actually only time it was knocked out for a few minutes was when a storm passed through with a huge down pour... clouds have no effect on performance.

Not available in North Idaho. Only other similar option up there is $450/month for any worthwhile bandwidth (for remote work). So I went with Starlink and I’m VERY happy (so far)

You are quite the salesman. Excellent content and great editing. You present like an educator. Thanks again

Quick question....can you confirm that the connection from the outside antenna equipment to the inside router is only one ethernet connection (POE, I assume)? I'm considering getting the service at my new house. I already have one CAT 6 cable from outside where I think the antenna would go that terminates in my office. I'm hoping to not have to have any additional cabling install so that's why I'm curious. Thanks in advance!!!

this is great thanks for the thorough review Tim

I think the reason why fixed wireless doesn't need line of sight is they using frequency 900mhz or below for transmission

I just checked that out and found out this internet service is only for business only , not for personal . So sad.

I live in india, in 2023 one of the companies here called JIO introduced this same concept. They call it AirFiber. I pay 8 USD equivalent for 1000GB at 60 Mbps + they provide a android tv device which works on the same WIFI it has over 550 TV channels. All this for 8 USD for a month. Fixed wireless is the best.

I’m moving back out to our farm and work from home. We’re rural and having extreme difficult time with ISP in area. Have spectrum now , 300msps would at work for me. Thanks.

0:39 Wrong. Tmobile Home Internet on 4g cost $50 per month, taxes included, ZERO throttle NEVER. No hardware cost, self install (plug into wall outlet). Running 2 laptops, streaming 3 TVs, 4 phones, 1 PC hardcore gamer at 110 mbps download. 30mbps upload. You're living in the past. AT&T is a joke.

Man, i am jelous. I have very very limited options. Satlilite was my only option, and that was not worth the money. Starlink seemed too good to be true, and it is. The expected "available in your area" has been getting pushed back every year since it came out. Then, Tmobil began offering in my area. that only worked well for a month or two until they upgraded the topwers to 5G. I have been dealling with extremely slow download, and almost nothing on the upload for about a year or more now. I have just ordered an external antenna setup to see how that works out for us. If it does not work out we may have to move due to just launching an online business. We would like to work from home. This option got me exited! I waited until the end of the video and then went and checked. Not available in my area. i swear I live in a bubble that is stuck in the 1950's

Correction for your video (great video btw), it's not 'Megabytes', it's Megabits. How can you tell which is which? Mb-megabits, MB-megabytes. 8x difference between those 2 numbers, so it's important to know which is which when comparing speeds/advertisements/etc. Speed tests, as well as advertised speeds from ISP's, are almost always given in Megabits (1/8 of a megabyte). Gigabit internet service means you could theoretically download 125 Megabytes a second (1,000/8 bits to a byte)

Sounds good if you like data caps. No data cap for starlink truly unlimited and clouds don't get in the way. We had a heavy rain storm recently here in washington state and it didn't skip a beat.

Would rather have like TMO home internet at this point. Many at that one mile are hitting 150/300 Download and upload of avg 20/30 with a ping of 50 or below and is available on any cell site without any cable's. As far as star link is concerned that's a whole different story but you'll see about the same speeds as you do on your T-Mobile home internet but the fact is T-Mobile and Verizon home internet are always going to be better than AT&t's wireless because they're setups Plus with starlink that's also extremely far distance and all you're looking at 350 to 550 miles or better just to send information down to earth and then it has to retransmit all that information back up to the satellites and it's got to hit all your different servers and all that good stuff end up heading over 150 milliseconds which is way too high for online gaming even T-Mobile and Verizon's home internet on 5G you may get good downloads great uploads with a low latency but when it comes to any real time applications or gaming that's where you end up running in the issues with these types of services they're just not up the par right now now streaming on the other hand that's a completely different story because that's not as sensitive but basically everything else you do online when it comes to gaming and wanting to live streaming all that good stuff T-Mobile and Verizon's home internet still tops what you have any day. Plus the problem is this is not rapidly available and most parts of the United States. And the issue is if you don't have AT&t in your area there's no way form to hook up that copper line which is very interesting that they even bothered to hook that up because if AT&t was smart enough they could just offer home internet like Verizon and T-Mobile are.

Good information. 😎👍 Personally, I'd spend the $2,000 for the cable internet and even more if I could get fiber. That said, I have a friend I'm sending your information to so he can compare to his unlimited cellular. I'm trying to convince him to get the RV version of Starlink. He's been on the beta list / request list almost day one in the boonies in Ohio.

Just checked availablity in TN we are moving to the area between Shelbyville and Lynchburg.... Sadly not available right now...

I did not know this option existed, thanks for the information!!

I have fixed internet and I also got starlink and I also have the T-Mobile home internet box at the end I stayed with the starlink and canceled the other two fix Internet was through AT&t and they had data caps so that one was a no-brainer to get rid of cuz I wasn't planning on paying more for extra data and T-Mobile was all right but at the end of the day starlink was better than T-Mobile. I live out in the desert there is no internet choices other than cell towers or hues and viasat tried them they suck they each didn't last longer then 6 months I dumped them fast worst service ever.

People need to stop accepting these data limit caps, which give you no ability to be your most creative self. And just because a rich person accepts it, the same is imposed on poor people.

As always wonderful video Tim 💚

Great informative vid. Thank you. Tim, would you happen to know how far you can be from the cell tower? It looks like you are less than 1000 feet!

How is the Pornhub connections? Asking for a friend.

I had fixed wireless and there was nothing but problems. You must have line of sight to a tower. In the rural area in NC where I live, there are only mom & pop companies providing fixed wireless and they don’t have the capital to build good networks. AT&T is not a provider here. I have Starlink and it is golden. Yep, I took down two trees on the Northern side of my property. Removing those trees did not hurt the landscape in any way. Honestly, Starlink is the only really viable universal solution for us rural folk. By the way, Verizon and Amazon formed a partnership to compete with Starlink. This tells me that Low Earth Orbit satellite capacity is going to expand.

I am staying at an Airbnb way out in the country far from any towns. I cannot see any towers nearby. They have T-Mobile home internet here. It is pretty good. Consistency is good. Downstream runs between 60 and 120Mbps. The only downside I see is that the upstream is 3-6 Mbps. Still it has been nice to have adequate, reliable internet while on vacation.

Hi there thanks for this information! Do you know if this unit is available in Canada (most likely be with a different provider)?

Tried 360 broadband - no reception, trees & hills - tower 7mi way. ATT as well, no reception - trees & hills - tower 3mi way. So I'll be looking at starlink now. I'm using a hotspot with limited 100gb, and then it shuts down. Love the county indeed. Till it comes to getting internet 😂

I’m definitely going to check it out and see if it is available here! Thanks!

That's great Tim! Very informative. Even in So. Ca AT &T not available in my area😒

@RidgeLife You have had your AT&T Fixed Wireless for a while now. Do you have an update for us on your service and connection you could report on? Thank you

Enjoyed Watching as Always

That drone footage was very cool!

what is the emf emissions - it would be great to see the EMF/RF readings near the antenna as well as inside the house.

Can i get tgis installed on a sprinter van? I do cargo loads all over the usa i wonder if it would be good everywhere

I was told by our local ATT guy that our DSL will be cancelled within the year. I signed up for Starlink on the first day it became available, and our fixed wireless (ATT) seems to be full at this point. We are close to the towers. We have a home in which I need to use an Orbi (mesh system) to get the DSL coverage here. So, which ever is available to me first (Starlink/ATT Fixed) I will need to jump at. Does the Router supplied by ATT offered the inputs to use my Orbi?

Here is my question. What happens if the grid goes down and what I mean by that is your cell tower. Again meaning is something happens to the cell tower your internet is doomed. This video is excellent though. Hopefully nothing will ever happen to your tower provider. For me and our North Eastern Tennessee homestead, since our house pad was created and trees cleared, we have a total open space here on our acreage in the Appalation mountains. I desire to eventually be totally off grid if possible. I agree with you that your wonderful system can out do Starlink. Great job on all you nicely shared. But like you also said, some of us will choose something else. For me and my family and how the world is headed, if cell towers were to go down, I believe satellite internet will keep us connected when everyone else’s internet is down. But, I love everything you shared. Great video. It’s important for each and everyone of us to do what he or she believes is best and this video is absolutely doing just that. Thanks for sharing. Wayne

Wow that’s nice. I called AT&T in our area and was told the fixed wireless was load and no spare for another user. So guess that didn’t work for use.

Something to think about 🤔 Good video Tim 🤙🏼😁👍🏼

I can take my Starlink anywhere I am. At home, at my cabin or out on my trapline with no problems.

That's good for your location. Xfinity is in my neighborhood and my speeds are 495 download and 39 upload on a TV cable. It does go down when like a hurricane goes through.

I was SATCOM for the military...there's a lot of variables with satellite. Sounds like ATT might be a TROPO technology...where the signal bounces off of the troposphere...in a nutshell.

Grrrrr Upload 👍🏻 on a throttle down 👎🏻 Very informative. Thank you. ✌🏻😎

Good information. We are about to cut our Century Link subscription because they sold it off to Brightspeed and we all know that's how they screw up services & raise prices. Our price pachage is locked in at a really low price. So I expect a big jump to stay with their marginal service. Can't get Starlink right now where we are, North Central Texas, but may try AT&T Fixed, as that's who our current cell phone provider is now. But, we are about to start doing more RV Traveling and I think Starlink will be a better choice for our mobile internet needs. Many of our RV Friends love it. This maybe worth looking into. So hoping Elon gets Starlink over us soon. I hear Starlink slows down as well as the subscriber # increase.......

Very interesting! Great seeing ya time. Miss ya! Take Care. Karen 🙂👍

Yeah Tim in all different places it is different prices!!

Am dealing with over 100 locations all over the US. Looking into this technology now. Looks good paying as much as $300 a month always looking for on the go internet and unusual new tech and this tech is new! Love T-Mobile gateway! Why? It’s portable and you take it with you the router antenna looks like a speaker so take it on a plane or an RV.

Great and informative video Tim. Lol, I’m also a Blood blood fan. Take care and God Bless👍💕🇺🇸

How did you get them to come out and check your area? im not in the middle of the woods and the website still says unavailable.

i've installed starlink. so far, no trees need removing, and no word of drop outs. not cheap but not had any one complain. I'm in Australia though. i don't have it only for cost and no need for super fast internet.

is there a max distance from tower limit? would this be suitable for RV?

First time I've heard off grid and internet used in the same sentence

I get 18 with my internet but would like more. I will check it out!

Do you have a link for AT&T fixed wireless to see if it is available in my area...How did you get around 2036 installation date ?

I use Hughes net. Coats are important to me. I had Dish. Hughes net was was the best deal for me. ATT is really expensive. Dish is crap. I use a generator for power.

I currently have AT&T fixed wireless internet. Their antenna is pointed at a Verizon tower. We also have DirecTv streaming service. DirecTv is constantly buffering. I guess AT&T don't play nice together.

I would look into the radiation or rf signal coming off of that antenna and asked to have it put higher on the house,

So did you consider T mobile? It just needs a plug for power and no other wiring or gear for connectivity. It never throttles the speed, or raises its prices. I would be curious to see if you have a good and reliable signal in your neck of the woods. This way I could determine if it could work on an island off the coast of California. It’s also portable, so if you took it on the road. You’d still have a wifi connection. Provided to still have power connection as in a solar powered generator.

$2000 to bring cable to your house? I would have taken that deal in a second. They wanted $50,000 to run it 1.1 miles to my house.