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I live in a rural area, as in 30 miles for a town with shopping, 70 miles for the closest Walmart. No cable or DSL here. Houses are miles apart. I had satellite for years (about 0.5 meg down, 7.5 gig monthly download cap, 2.3GB monthly upload, rolling cap (usage from 30 days before rolled off every day, it never reset to 0)). Verizon put up a cell tower about 11 miles away in about '12, so I switched to 20GB on Verizon for $70/month for a while (first 3G, then 4G after it upgraded). Then a regional cell carrier plus a cell signal booster got me a 2.5 meg average download home plan, with a generous 200GB cap for $50. I had that until this November. Then Verizon started offering a prepaid unlimited jetpack plan. It is not like the postpaid plans where you use X amount and get throttled (and the reps seem clueless about it, they act like they don't know, but you can order it online or ask for it by plan number). You are deprioritized all the time, but there are no caps at all, no thresholds (unlike postpaid). Also, video is capped at HD only (which is fine by me...). Since my tower is not congested (but not super high speed like those closer to big towns), I get 15 to 20 meg down, and about 7 up all the time. Plus, after activating in a jetpack, you can move the sim. I got one of the cheapest LTE routers I could get from ebay (which happened to be a Verizon Smarthub). It's always on, plus ethernet out. Not too bad I think. It's $65/month with autopay if the only line, $45 if it's the second line (first line can be a prepaid phone). I used a bit over 100GB last month and the month before.
Here's the latest plans from one of the satellite providers, in my zipcode. Add on the equipment lease fee too. These and Hughesnet are my choices for internet, no other national cell carriers at all in range of my area, except roaming.
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