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krispos42

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12. If there is cellular service at your home...

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Sun Nov 26, 2017, 08:16 AM

Nov 2017

...you can get a USB dongle that will connect your computer to the cellular data network. Much better than them. Your computer will be on the same 4G network as a smart phone.

My aunt had them in Illinois and it was terribly slow. I understand a latency problem; you had to go back and forth with a satellite 22k miles away. But it was not much faster than dial up.

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Anybody use HughesNet? [View all] marble falls Nov 2017 OP

I had in in a rural area on NM... Awful, alittlelark Nov 2017 #1

Rural Texas here. Thanks. marble falls Nov 2017 #3

They have a billboard in our little town.... dixiegrrrrl Nov 2017 #2

Never thought of it. I thought the webpage was a big nothing. marble falls Nov 2017 #4

Man oh man do people hate HATE HughesNet!!!!! marble falls Nov 2017 #6

You did the search, I take it. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2017 #9

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Horribly expensive. Slow, and unreliable. Dr Hobbitstein Nov 2017 #5

I was wondering about that. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2017 #11

As an absolutely Break time Nov 2017 #7

I did a search for feedback because of someone above suggesting it and boy oh boy was that an ... marble falls Nov 2017 #8

If there is cellular service at your home... krispos42 Nov 2017 #12

I was wondering about hot spotting off of a smart phone. marble falls Nov 2017 #13

You can do that but there's a data limit, I think krispos42 Nov 2017 #14

That was one of my thought, too. I'm not savy enought to understand my G needs for tv, phone, net... marble falls Nov 2017 #15

My wife's rural parents had no official internet options but dial-up and satellite. hunter Nov 2017 #16

Thanks for the info. marble falls Nov 2017 #17

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