I'm not talking about any specific company here, more so than I am the technology.
Are any of you familiar with it? Do any of you have it?
I'm thinking of switching my Internet service to Fixed Wireless. My current provider offers it, but they also have it "data capped" and it's slower than another company I found in my area.
I get the basic concept, and I would be OK with the speed they offer (50 Mbps is the max speed right now that this one company I am considering offers).
However, what I'm really concerned with is how it performs in different types of weather. It's not satellite, and it uses radio waves.
I'm trying to convince my wife, because our current Internet is painfully slow (less than 1Mbps download), and I have tried asking my current company about an "upgrade" in speed (the max they offer in my neighborhood is 6Mbps, I think), and they have told me that I can't be upgraded because of some kind of device in our neighborhood called a "matrix box".
Anyway, I'm trying to convince the Mrs. that this will be fine, but she wants something stable, since we use the Internet a lot. And I'm a software developer, and I have a lot of large programs that I need to download/upgrade from time to time. I think Fixed Wireless it stable. And she's said she also doesn't really "want another dish on the roof". And since fixed wireless is (to my knowledge) a transceiver system, there would be a dish on the roof.
Anyway, do any of you have experience with Fixed Wireless? What did you think of it?
Are any of you familiar with it? Do any of you have it?
I'm thinking of switching my Internet service to Fixed Wireless. My current provider offers it, but they also have it "data capped" and it's slower than another company I found in my area.
I get the basic concept, and I would be OK with the speed they offer (50 Mbps is the max speed right now that this one company I am considering offers).
However, what I'm really concerned with is how it performs in different types of weather. It's not satellite, and it uses radio waves.
I'm trying to convince my wife, because our current Internet is painfully slow (less than 1Mbps download), and I have tried asking my current company about an "upgrade" in speed (the max they offer in my neighborhood is 6Mbps, I think), and they have told me that I can't be upgraded because of some kind of device in our neighborhood called a "matrix box".
Anyway, I'm trying to convince the Mrs. that this will be fine, but she wants something stable, since we use the Internet a lot. And I'm a software developer, and I have a lot of large programs that I need to download/upgrade from time to time. I think Fixed Wireless it stable. And she's said she also doesn't really "want another dish on the roof". And since fixed wireless is (to my knowledge) a transceiver system, there would be a dish on the roof.
Anyway, do any of you have experience with Fixed Wireless? What did you think of it?
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