we have lived out in the woods for 7 years and we have terrible internet connection, and we have an amazing verizon plan. they said we should would need to put telephone poles and wires down the drive way, but that would be $5,000. we are using a verizon mifi hotspot, i just got a computer/pc and it can barely even run on this network. if anyone has any advice, please share. we are about a quarter mile away from the road.

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    1 year ago

    How much signal strength does the mifi say it’s getting? Can you move it up to a higher floor or try it in different spots (near windows) to see if you can get a better cell signal?

    Calling it a MiFi suggests to me it was meant to be portable. If you’re using it for permanent home internet, perhaps Verizon have something bigger that would perform better (bigger antennas, 5G, better CPU, etc)

    With any wireless tech, you’re sharing bandwidth with others around you on the same provider, so it’s more likely that you will run into capacity issues vs if you were to spend the $5k for the wired install.