Just curious if anyone here lives in the sticks, and if so what do you use for gaming internet?
I live in the sticks, and there is no ISP close to anything like the city or the out skirts of the city has. Comcast has service 1 mile from me but is unwilling to spend the cash to get service to me, I can't use a WISP because of a tree line that blocks the signal (the trees are not on my property or they would be gone).
So I use Verizon Wireless, expensive but it does work well with my PS4, and use a satellite for web surfing on the PC.
Basically I am looking for alternatives so I can game at a lower cost..
Not to throw you under the bus or anything, but I would like if rural people remained bad on internet as a means of keeping the online only machines away
But I think you're doing the best thing you can possibly do right now.
I think your best bet for faster, and more affordable internet is to write a letter to the government explaining why high speed affordable internet is important to your town. You can also start a high speed internet club for people to join to petition for faster affordable internet in your town.
My area is about half sticks and half not. Probably about 10-15 years ago it would have been considered entirely the sticks, but we do have a few ISP's serving our area including Verizon DSL and Time Warner RoadRunner. Those are really the only options for any type of "high-speed" internet as the ISPs advertise it though, and I put that in quotes because DSL's max speed in our area is only about 2 Mb/s, and that is no longer a high speed connection. Road Runner has some options with greater download speeds but I'm not sure what they are.
Verizon FiOS is pretty fast from what I hear, but they won't bring that out my way.
