ISP Alternatives?

[mrjordann]

Hi. Can somebody please help me find an internet service provider? I live in a pretty populated area. It's no New York or Los Angeles area, but it's pretty populated. For some reason, I can't seem to get a good ISP (internet service provider) out here! Apparently their advertising is just lies, because Comcast won't even run a cable 2 miles from their hotspot. Century link is the only company that comes out to my neighborhood, and they offer 7 Mbps download, and 0.7 Mbps up. I was looking into this thing called Speedify, but that would only double my speeds. That's still not fast enough for my ultimate goal, which is to livestream in at least 720p. And like I said, Century Link is the only company we can get besides dial-up, and they still don't offer more than 7 down. Are there any alternative options, like speedify? Or is there some new sort of satellite internet that has a manageable ping? Thanks, I hope you can help. -Jordan

[Kyuubixchidori]

seems like your only option mate. satellite is always expensive and slow, made for a last resort if you're in the middle of no where. 

[Samppa221]

I don't know if you can do it but if you could run 2 of those 7mbps lines and team them with a teaming router you would possibly get 14down and 1.4 up but it would be twice as much a month ;D

[LegacyStijncat]

Hi. Can somebody please help me find an internet service provider? I live in a pretty populated area. It's no New York or Los Angeles area, but it's pretty populated. For some reason, I can't seem to get a good ISP (internet service provider) out here! Apparently their advertising is just lies, because Comcast won't even run a cable 2 miles from their hotspot. Century link is the only company that comes out to my neighborhood, and they offer 7 Mbps download, and 0.7 Mbps up. I was looking into this thing called Speedify, but that would only double my speeds. That's still not fast enough for my ultimate goal, which is to livestream in at least 720p. And like I said, Century Link is the only company we can get besides dial-up, and they still don't offer more than 7 down. Are there any alternative options, like speedify? Or is there some new sort of satellite internet that has a manageable ping? Thanks, I hope you can help. -Jordan

Great location and budget info kappa!

[dalekphalm]

Hi. Can somebody please help me find an internet service provider? I live in a pretty populated area. It's no New York or Los Angeles area, but it's pretty populated. For some reason, I can't seem to get a good ISP (internet service provider) out here! Apparently their advertising is just lies, because Comcast won't even run a cable 2 miles from their hotspot. Century link is the only company that comes out to my neighborhood, and they offer 7 Mbps download, and 0.7 Mbps up. I was looking into this thing called Speedify, but that would only double my speeds. That's still not fast enough for my ultimate goal, which is to livestream in at least 720p. And like I said, Century Link is the only company we can get besides dial-up, and they still don't offer more than 7 down. Are there any alternative options, like speedify? Or is there some new sort of satellite internet that has a manageable ping? Thanks, I hope you can help. -Jordan

Hi, you haven't really given us a lot to go on. If Century Link is the only ISP that provides access to a physical line at your address, then I'm sorry, but you're out of luck.

 

Until another company brings lines into your building, or Century Link decides to upgrade the infrastructure, you'll be stuck with what you currently have.

 

Note "Speedify" is a link-aggregate teaming solution that combines multiple internet connections together, and does load balancing on it.

 

What that means, is that unless you have a SECOND internet connection to team with (LTE hotspot, for example), then the software will literally do nothing at all for you.

 

Your only alternatives are all wireless solutions:

Satellite: Incredibly slow, SUPER HIGH LATENCY, terrible upload

Cellular (3G/4G/LTE, etc): Speed depends on location, signal strength, and type of connections available - generally very expensive, with a very low usage cap. Upload may not be terribly good. Ping/Latency will likely be fairly bad.

 

Your shitty 7/0.7 connection is pretty much the best you'll get at the moment.

[mrjordann]

I don't know if you can do it but if you could run 2 of those 7mbps lines and team them with a teaming router you would possibly get 14down and 1.4 up but it would be twice as much a month ;D

Thanks, the price definitely isn't the problem. Sounds unique, that actually might work...? I don't know ^o^

[mrjordann]

Hi, you haven't really given us a lot to go on. If Century Link is the only ISP that provides access to a physical line at your address, then I'm sorry, but you're out of luck.

 

Until another company brings lines into your building, or Century Link decides to upgrade the infrastructure, you'll be stuck with what you currently have.

 

Note "Speedify" is a link-aggregate teaming solution that combines multiple internet connections together, and does load balancing on it.

 

What that means, is that unless you have a SECOND internet connection to team with (LTE hotspot, for example), then the software will literally do nothing at all for you.

 

Your only alternatives are all wireless solutions:

Satellite: Incredibly slow, SUPER HIGH LATENCY, terrible upload

Cellular (3G/4G/LTE, etc): Speed depends on location, signal strength, and type of connections available - generally very expensive, with a very low usage cap. Upload may not be terribly good. Ping/Latency will likely be fairly bad.

 

Your shitty 7/0.7 connection is pretty much the best you'll get at the moment.

Thanks. Well, actually I heard that each device technically gets 7/0.7, and century link actually delivers more to our house. Basically, speedify would take 2 of those connections (one through my wireless network adapter, and one through ethernet), and combine them to double it.

[dalekphalm]

Thanks. Well, actually I heard that each device technically gets 7/0.7, and century link actually delivers more to our house. Basically, speedify would take 2 of those connections (one through my wireless network adapter, and one through ethernet), and combine them to double it.

Kind of sort of.

 

What you'd actually have, is century link bring a second phone line into your house (if it isn't already setup to allow this) from the drop point outside, and then they would install a second modem.

 

Then, "Speedify" would combine those two network connections, in whatever way you wanted to connect to them. Your computer would still have to connect to each modem. You could do it via one connected on Ethernet, and the other via Wifi.

 

Alternatively you could pick up a cheap PCIe Gigabit NIC (Seriously they're like $15 or less for a cheap one, $35 for a really good one), and have both modems connect via ethernet, which would be a more stable connection.

 

In any case, even the combined speed of 14 down/1.4 up, is likely still wayyyy too low for Streaming (Presumably on Twitch.TV?), even at 720p. You might be able to do it, with really low bitrates, but the quality will be really crappy.

 

You'd want at least ~5-10 Mbps upload for streaming.