Wireless Internet?

[pauliep]

Does anyone have the scoop on what's available that can service Aurora for some high speed internet? I'm moving into an apartment complex that has an exclusive contact through a no name poor service company (American Communications). So no chance of comcast or qwest.

Clear Wireless? Anyone use them? I have seen hordes of negative reviews. But I'm really optimistic in a gamble it might work well.

DishNetwork and DirectTV use Wild Blue which has bad ping so xbox live and netflix make this a no go.

Verizon? Their two mobile boardband devices are crap from what I have read.

Didn't see many options from my searching of local companies that can provide something.

[Foolds]

Ive got my pops a sprint 3g wireless card and Ive been real happy with it each time ive borrowed it... I would guess there 4g hotspots would be even better

[Tylar]

You can try Skybeam (www.skybeam.com). Line-of-sight wireless. My mother uses it up north and so long as the antenna is aligned and it's not snowing rocks, it's okay.

[eklew]

You are moving?

[longrider]

I have been using Skybeam for years and can recommend it. I dont know what issues Tylars mom had but i have never had to realign the dish and while there have been outages they are not weather related. Outages are also very rare, maybe once every 3 or 4 months for a few hours

[brennahm]

We use Verizon cards for our computers in the field office. Work pretty well but we've got a good signal out here. The 4g cards (Pantech UML290?) are stupid fast so it might be worth checking out the service signal in your area.

[longrider]

What is the Verizon bandwidth cap? the OP did mention Netflix so that could come into play.

[JustSomeDude]

FWIW, I use my Android phone on Verizon's 4G LTE network and get blazing speeds when using it as mobile hotspot, or tethered modem. Here's a video I made when I first got the Thunderbolt. Speeds have settled into the 7-9Mb/s range since then (March)... but that's comparable with many mid-tier home DSL lines. (Ignore the "upload" test results... the SpeedTest.net app was unable to accurately measure the 4G upload speeds when the network first came online).

http://akphotodenver.com/images/tspeed.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWT40nlGYok&hd=1)

Also... my office manager just cancelled her Comcast service and switched to Verizon's 4G mobile service exclusively. She also lives in Aurora. She is thrilled with the service, but as I understand it, she can only access the network via the USB modem -- so only one device can be connected at a time. I don't think the connection can be shared via a router - but that's not to say some clever soul couldn't figure out a way to do it. ;)