Satellite internet

I'm moving to the sticks in Missouri and cannot find an internet provider. Anyone have a satellite provider like Hughes Net or something similar?
Curious as to reliability and price, etc.

I called three companies supposedly in the area and they said they don't offer service there. I have AT&T for my cell, but I've seen those mobile hotspots from Verizon. Would that be an option?

Any suggestions welcomed!! Thanks!

 

I can’t help with isp’s, but have some experience using satellite internet in rural Georgia. The lag is pretty bad and you’ll be hard pressed to stream any steeler games.

 

Do you recall if that service had any data "caps" where you were allowed to only download a certain amount?

 

I’m sure there were data caps, but it’s a part time residence(hunting/fishing property) so we never went over. Go out there for a week at a time and stream pandora basically 24/7.

 

I'm out in the boonies as well - no cable, phone line service is so bad it won't even support Caller ID or 3 way Conference Calling. I have DTV satellite for TV and Viasat/Exede internet satellite - probably about 5 years now. Before that had Hughes for about 7 years which was just awful - frequent outages, slow speed, bad customer service.

I can't say that Viasat is great but they did upgrade their service recently and doubled download limits to 25 GB/mo and doubled speed to 25mbps for about the same monthly price ($90/mo + tax) as I was paying before the upgrade for double capacity and speed. I was always bumping up against my 10 MB monthly limit just with regular internet use - no streaming or videos. I'm fine now at 25MB but haven't really used the streaming or video download features, but the few times I have it was very slow to download. Sporting events like Pitt BB and FB are very choppy and sound cuts out a lot. I think I could upgrade again for more speed and capacity but it would cost me $200 a month which is crazy. Satellite is the 1800's compared to urban FIOS and I can't use Netflix or Hulu etc without using up my monthly limit very quickly. Viasat still blacks out 1-2 days every month for no reason (sunspots?). Verizon sold out to Frontier for all landline phone services out this way and Frontier says they've upgraded but speed is only 10-15mbps which is stupid but probably for peanuts per month compared to satellite. Good luck. Country (desert) living is splendid but not very hi-tech features.

 

great info. that helps a lot! I never heard of Viasat so I'll have to check them out.