On Thursday (12/31/2015 at 12:02AM -0600), Jim Brain wrote: > On 12/30/2015 10:51 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > >We're at least 2.5 miles from the DSLAM, so DSL is *not* an > >option. That's the distance on the private roads and I haven't > >seen where the DSLAM might be (nearest town is 5 miles away once > >you get to the "public" roads). > We're in a similar boat. We're too far away for DSL, microwave > can't reach us due to the treeline, and Cable isn't available here. > I took a page from FullTime RV folks, and bought a commercial grade > router/AP that uses cellular modems for uplink, and then found a > business cellular package that has unlimited use. We burn through > 400GB every month here.
I build those kinds of routers for my day job. It's pretty much routine now to see 50Mbps up and down on a 4G LTE link. CAT4 will do even better. I have a little box running OpenWRT (totally open source) with the cellular modem inside and ethernet out the back. Does what a cable modem+router or DSL modem+router does but does it over cellular. As you have discovered though, finding an affordable package is the trick. My world is IoT/M2M and so there is a lot of bundling and pooling of plans going on to reduce the per user costs in that space. Chris -- Chris Elmquist