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Open Roads Forum  >  Technology Corner  > What is possibility of truly wireless home internet? Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 4   Next burlmart • View posts Baton Rouge Senior Member Joined: 03/28/2005 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 01/27/12 04:19am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Does anyone have any insight into how (or if) phone companies could drop prices and wireless data could possibly make internet from cable providers obsolete? Also, could broadcast tv shows be compressed/trimmed so that they consume less data and so might also be received from the phone providers sometime in the future? This would be truly wireless and resuld in one less bill. But, this is probably just trading one inhuman corporate money-grabber for another. 2005 Trail Lite 213 B-Plus w/ 6.0 Chevy 4*phun*2 • View posts Canada Senior Member Joined: 09/24/2008 View Profile Posted: 01/27/12 04:29am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Traded an inhuman cable company for an inhuman satellite provider. Not worth the effort. Bad service from both. Our telephone company offers TV service in major centres. Glenn & Karen '08 Chevy LT 3500 HD 4x4 CC LB DRW (nice hips) '06 F350 4X4 Lariat CC LB DRW (nice hips) retired '09 Victory Lane 38SRV Toy Hauler '02 HD Road King FLHRCI KRUZN '04 F150 XLT Super Crew Our Toys Little Kopit • View posts TheMaritimes.ca Senior Member Joined: 12/23/2003 View Profile Offline Posted: 01/27/12 04:45am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I have wireless. If I have a problem, I call. By times I'm the first to call and alert the company to a tower that's down. I live in a rural area and that may help have this level of service. It's a lot slower than DSL, but I can access the online live via the internet tv. & I can get online radio too. Other options seem to have come along since I got this connection. I stay because of the service. Haven't even priced the others. & I, I took the road less travelled by. My Photo Album, featuring Labrador 2006 sch911 • View posts Rochester Hills, MI Senior Member Joined: 04/13/2003 View Profile Posted: 01/27/12 04:48am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator If you live in a Verizon 4G area that is a reality right now.... My Verizon 4G MiFi gets better throughput than my cable companies cable modem.... Chrysler/Dodge/Ram/Jeep Engineer 2003 Damon Challenger 348 Class A - F53 Triton V10 bwanshoom • View posts Darnestown, MD Senior Member Joined: 05/29/2007 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 01/27/12 04:53am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator It's happening now. Verizon has announced it's their home broadband solution going forward: Link 2010 Cougar 322 QBS 2005 GMC Sierra 2500HD LLY CC/SB 4x4 SLT Pullrite SuperGlide 18K burlmart • View posts Baton Rouge Senior Member Joined: 03/28/2005 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 01/27/12 06:05am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator bwan, I did not follow that link story very well. we do have verizon 4g lte in baton rouge, and it is very fast. we also have cox hi-spd internet, also very fast. 70 channel analog tv cable + internet gets cox $110/mo ($45 internet). on the new smartphone, verizon charges $30/mo for 4gb of internet, but to use it on the PC would cost the extra $20.mo to tether. so you have cable at $45 for unlimited net, and verizon at $50/mo for only 4gb. I understand some folks have grandfathered unlimited data, so they essentially do not need cable internet anymore. does technology exist giving capacity from cell towers to let everyone use unlimited phone data? could this possibly include internet tv for all users? also, how might i track how much data we download monthly from cox internet to compare with the verizon 4gb? paulcardoza • View posts Southeastern Massachusetts Senior Member Joined: 01/15/2010 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 01/27/12 06:20am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Bandwidth is the limiting factor. That is why cellular companies currently cap usage. The infrastructure required to provide huge amounts of bandwidth would be an enormous expense for wireless carriers and we won't see it for decades. Unfortunately, as tablets and smart phones continue to evolve and improve, along with faster wireless connect speeds, the thirst for bandwidth continues to outpace the development of the infrastructure. remember when AT&T first released the iPhone? The huge bandwidth demand it added to their network brought them to their knees in high population areas. Paul & Sandra New Bedford, MA 2003 Monaco Executive M43 DS2 skipnchar • View posts Topeka or somewhere else Senior Member Joined: 12/17/2003 View Profile Posted: 01/27/12 06:22am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Even if you're wireless, the signal must be sent from someone and they are going to want money for it. What you are asking is already available via satellite but those satellite companies have a lot of overhead and are not in business to give their product away. 2011 F-150 HD Ecoboost 3.5 V6. 2550 payload, 17,100 GCVWR - 2004 F-150 HD (Traded after 80,000 towing miles) 2007 Rockwood 8314SS 34' travel trailer US Govt survey shows three out of four people make up 75% of the total population Monaco Montclair • View posts Virginia Senior Member Joined: 08/01/2008 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Posted: 01/27/12 06:31am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator we use one every day. wi-fi 3g--happy-camping WyoTraveler • View posts Powell, WY Senior Member Joined: 11/22/2011 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 01/27/12 07:04am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator In Wyoming I had Starband for several years. Two problems, they are slow, and they cap usage. We changed over to a local company TCT West. Since we don't have a land line out here in the rural area they send the signal back and forth to our home via a UHF dish pointed at their antenna. We can now stream video, and have a voip phone for less than I can get satellite or 4G. Our dish is connected with CAT-5 cable and sits about 50 ft from the house. 2012 Jay Flight 19RD TT/W thermal package R19 walls, R22 roof, R24 floor 2008 F-250 Ford FX4 6.8L V10/4.10 rear axle Curt class V hitch Reese Trunion WD with dual cam AC6CV/7 ex-W8RUR since 1954 Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 4   Next Open Roads Forum  >  Technology Corner  > What is possibility of truly wireless home internet?

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