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decisiones2020
  7/14/2020 16:03 EST

Can someone tell me more about WIFI quality in LlanoGrande?

Our jobs will depend complete on WIFI and it needs to be steady and really good.

TIA

guestuser
  7/14/2020 17:57 EST

I don’t post on the forum anymore but as I think I’m the only person who really lives in Llanogrande I’ll tell you what I know.

Most of Llanogrande is rural and therefore internet is generally delivered over copper phone lines which can limit it to around 10 MBS.. Our road was cabled recently with fiber and we get 50 MBs. We’ve been told it’s sort of an experiment (there’s a new development going up near us). The biggest issue that we have is when we have issues it can take time to get it fixed as they don’t have many fiber trained engineers in the area.
Some people have the Hughes satellite system as a back up. That’s capacity limited and expensive though.

Even getting cabled if you’ve not got service can be a challenge. The distribution box on our road was fully used so there was a waiting list for connections.

As the cables all run overhead there’s a fair amount of outages as well. The power and internet companies don’t trim trees so when storms pass through it’s not unusual to have outages.

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fecherklyn
  7/14/2020 20:59 EST

Nice to know you are still around OL.

Wildstubby
  7/14/2020 21:09 EST

I have copper here in the US and I don't get anywhere close to 10MB. 3MB on a really good day.

Upale
  7/15/2020 08:43 EST

I have been using HughNet satellite service for a couple of years. Mostly good.

decisiones2020
  9/17/2020 20:00 EST

Thank you!
This is a game changer ?????????

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Wildstubby
  9/17/2020 21:27 EST

Hughes net suffers from latency delay. Because you are going from your house to the satellite, to Hughes control center, through their proxy. It may 186,000 mile per second but there is some distance involved that makes even audio communications bad. Also you what is call Fair Access Policy which pretty much states you can't hog the frequency for all your downloading. When you reach your maximum throughput, you get 'FAPped' and they will throttle you to barely above dial-up speed!

Franklin99
  9/19/2020 15:00 EST

Sounds to me like one should choose more of a big city environment in order to get decent internet service. I rely on it, so that definitely narrows down the possible destinations.

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