Where I live (just outside a very small town in Ohio) there are a few options, but they're:
1) The phone company
2) Satellite bundled with TV service, with an absurd data cap and high latency
3) Line-of-sight wireless. If it rains, it stops working
There's a cable company but their lines end just short of this road.
The only one that is both reliable and usable in practice is the phone company.
It's DSL with a possible max of 10Mbps down, but the actual line sync rate is 4Mbps, partly because the copper lines are quite long (it's amazing it can even hold 4Mbps looking at the line stats in the modem).
But it tends to be capable of sustaining that rate 24/7, there's no throttling at specific times etc. There is a soft cap of 250GB buried on their website, but pfSense routinely shows 1.5x-2x that sometimes and I've never heard them complain.
Netflix and Hulu work fine, but they're being prioritized by pfSense. Without it, if someone is watching a short Youtube or Facebook video elsewhere in the house, it will cause Netflix or Hulu to react by cutting bitrate severely (if possible. Apple TV will just pause and buffer).
It costs $120/month, and their breakdown shows only $39 of that being internet related.
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Where I live (just outside a very small town in Ohio) there are a few options, but they're:
1) The phone company
2) Satellite bundled with TV service, with an absurd data cap and high latency
3) Line-of-sight wireless. If it rains, it stops working
There's a cable company but their lines end just short of this road.
The only one that is both reliable and usable in practice is the phone company.
It's DSL with a possible max of 10Mbps down, but the actual line sync rate is 4Mbps, partly because the copper lines are quite long (it's amazing it can even hold 4Mbps looking at the line stats in the modem).
But it tends to be capable of sustaining that rate 24/7, there's no throttling at specific times etc. There is a soft cap of 250GB buried on their website, but pfSense routinely shows 1.5x-2x that sometimes and I've never heard them complain.
Netflix and Hulu work fine, but they're being prioritized by pfSense. Without it, if someone is watching a short Youtube or Facebook video elsewhere in the house, it will cause Netflix or Hulu to react by cutting bitrate severely (if possible. Apple TV will just pause and buffer).
It costs $120/month, and their breakdown shows only $39 of that being internet related.