Broadband Corp

My only other "broadband" coverage option aside from satellite or cellular in my area is DSL. Rural DSL is not a reliable option, my specific address is connected to a DSLAM that hosts 50 other houses and is serviced by a 9 Mbps backhaul. Between 5-10PM, speeds are worse than dial-up. When I first researched Broadband, I was so excited. Here was an option similarly price but with speeds up to 80 mbit/sec!! (Lightning plan). Well, unfortunately, tall trees killed that dream. I settled for DSL. Fought that for a year, and finally decided to add a radio tower to my property to be able to get the Broadband signal. Now I have a line of sight to the Howard Lake water tower. Unfortunately, the equipment on that tower is not the newest stuff, so I'm technology limited at 10 down 1 up. But, it is ALWAYS that speed. It doesn't slow down in the evenings like other services. I have a tracking app that tracks my internet link uptime. I've had the service a little over a year, and the TOTAL downtime is 18 hours, and most of that was a single 12-hour incident where someone had killed the power at the water tower site. That's over 99.5%. Good enough for me. Most outages other than that are 5-10 minutes long. Price is higher than an urban cable or fiber connection, which is why I rate the value at 3 stars instead of 5, but for what you're getting and especially where you're getting it, you won't find better. Just remember, you need a line of sight (or VERY close to it) to their broadcast sites. Elevation is key.