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-29- t1_iu492ga wrote

I live in a rural area where a local ISP actually rolled out a LOT of fiber. Problem is, they stopped 2 city blocks short of my property and refuse to put in any more fiber because the county is no longer considered "under served"

EDIT

I should say I am not without internet. I do have Comcast, which is a whole other can of worms.

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unique3 t1_iu550bg wrote

> rural

> 2 city blocks.

Are you using that as a unit of measure for a country road or are you in a city/town development of some kind?

To me rural is when your nearest neighbour is measured in miles not feet.

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Frumpy_little_noodle t1_iu5hjqd wrote

My property line is 30 feet from my neighbor's house. They have Spectrum and I can't get it because my house is over 300' from his.

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PreppyAndrew t1_iu5iuww wrote

See if your neighbor will install a point to point ap Like https://store.ui.com/products/ubb-us

You should be able to leach off their internet

Something like this>!

https://youtu.be/9T98VsMe3oo

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Black_Moons t1_iu65h3l wrote

Second this. I got some 5ghz directional units ($150 each?) and could share internet at 100mbps solid with someone 200~300' away.

Protip: Don't buy 2.4ghz units unless you don't live near other people, because any apartment building will be so full of 2.4ghz signals that you'll never get your own signal through that noise.

2.4ghz has 3 non overlapping channels, 5ghz has dozens. But 5ghz won't go through walls, and even glass windows block a good deal of signal so you really gotta mount the units outside, or at least 1 outside and one in a window. (But this also means apartment buildings don't leak nearly as much 5ghz because all the walls stop it)

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-29- t1_iu5hqli wrote

The town I live in is in the middle of a farm community and only has 3000 ish people. So it’s not a Minden City or a Ruth but it’s definitely not a Bay City or Detroit.

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