Ubifi Rural Internet

/ Ubifi Rural Internet #21  
ok so when I go to that band scanner it says it is running then a while later craps out and gives me an error. Did it just work for you?

I am currently getting worse speed than what I get with my phone...
Yeah, mine just worked. Maybe try rebooting it and Rin it again.
 
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#22  
Yeah, mine just worked. Maybe try rebooting it and Rin it again.

Yeah no joy there..... I am only getting like 2mb on the Ubifi. On my phone I get much more. Guess I will have to call customer service tomorrow.
 
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#23  
ok so to get the band scanner to work you MUST be connected the MoFi via a network cable not via wifi.

In my area I ONLY have band12 no other bands on that tower. So speed will be highly variable. I am getting betwen 2 mb and 10. There is another tower close by that has several bands. I may be able to use a directional antenna to hit that tower or reposition the unit in the house to hit that antenna. I may just play with the unit outside to see if that helps. If so I will use a directional antenna to get a better signal.

Their tech support was really pretty good.
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #24  
Good to hear, I will keep this one in mind for the future. We're doing ok with the provider we have right now. Hopefully they will keep upgrading the infrastructure as they add folks and there is more to browse on the interweb.
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #25  
I sent Ubifi an email just now - asking if service would be available at my location. I have HughesNet @ $60 per month - so I'm only looking for info and not change. Based upon the service I get on my cell phone(AT&T - NEVER more than two bars, inside or outside and often ZERO) I really doubt they could provide service here. We shall see.........
Have you tried to wifi enable your cell phone? We have zero cell phone coverage so had hugesnet installed for phone service just last week. I Haven't tried it out yet.
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #26  
We have no cell coverage so depend on land line and internet through Verizon [no other choice]. It is extremely unreliable. Goes on and off during some days and goes out for days at a time some periods. Once went out for two weeks. Was told it was a systemic problem that had to be fixed at the plant but I could see the cable laying on the ground and wrapped around a fence post. Wish there was a better alternative.
 
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#27  
So consistently only getting around 5 mbps. Will likely order an external antenna to see if that helps.
 
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#28  
I put the unit in a different window. Found an app that tells me the direction of the strongest cell signal. So I am consistently getting 10MB. I found if stand outside right at that window my cell phone gives me 15MB or better. Research indicates it is likely because that part of the house is sided with aluminum. It acts like a poor man's parabolic mirror. So I may well put an antenna right out there on a post and call it good.

If I am going from the 2MB DSL I have to 15MB on this thing I will keep it for sure. Heck even if I just get 10MB I am good with it.

All in all Ubifi's service has been great.

I may next check to see if I can put this sim card into a portable hot spot that I have. That would be nice for going on vacation and the like where you still want to have net access.

I will start to test the "unlimited" feature of this because there are a couple of shows I want to binge watch this winter when I am stuck inside.
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #29  
I put the unit in a different window. Found an app that tells me the direction of the strongest cell signal. So I am consistently getting 10MB. I found if stand outside right at that window my cell phone gives me 15MB or better. Research indicates it is likely because that part of the house is sided with aluminum. It acts like a poor man's parabolic mirror. So I may well put an antenna right out there on a post and call it good.

If I am going from the 2MB DSL I have to 15MB on this thing I will keep it for sure. Heck even if I just get 10MB I am good with it.

All in all Ubifi's service has been great.

I may next check to see if I can put this sim card into a portable hot spot that I have. That would be nice for going on vacation and the like where you still want to have net access.

I will start to test the "unlimited" feature of this because there are a couple of shows I want to binge watch this winter when I am stuck inside.

Just take the Mofi with you, it's basically a hot spot with extra features.
 
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#30  
Just take the Mofi with you, it's basically a hot spot with extra features.

Yeah but the hotspot has a battery and if flying can be used at airport or on train if you are using that etc.
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #31  
Yeah but the hotspot has a battery and if flying can be used at airport or on train if you are using that etc.

That makes sense. I think you'll have an issue with the IMEI coded to the SIM card not matching. I have a friend at AT&T that could change it to all 1's in the system though, and then you could use the card in any device you wanted to. Try it and see what happens, if it doesn't work send me a PM with the ICC ID off the SIM (I find it easiest to take a picture of it and enlarge the photo, the numbers are small) and I'll get him to fix you up.
 
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#32  
So no changes yet but I am getting clover to 20mb now. Will be nice when the football game I want to watch needs to be streamed.
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #33  
Tag. Our dsl service with Frontier is the pits! Looking for alternatives.
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #34  
I knew the internet was going to be ***** when we moved to the country. You take the good with the bad. However, the Mobley thing has been fantastic and for $22 a month it is amazing. Not Google fiber by any means but who cares. I have satellite for tv so I don't stream much. So an alternative would be to move back to the city, no thanks
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #35  
We're streaming everything. Gears TV gives us all the channels, and I mean everything, US, UK, Canada, all the sports and movie channels plus the regular cable channels for $15/mo, Titanium TV gives us all the on demand and Ubifi for Internet, our monthly total is $85 for TV and Internet, less than it would be with Mobley and satellite. I've been seeing posts lately that the Mobley thing may be coming to an end.
 
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#36  
I am very happy with Ubifi. You need to determine if you have good AT&T cell signal at your place though. They use AT&T Towers. I get 10-15 mb down which is fine to stream one thing at a time. I think if I put up a directional antenna I can boost that to 30+ mb down. That would be plenty to stream two things or more. Since it is just me and SWMBO I am in no huge hurry to do it. Although the antenna is only like $100 and I have a pole in the ground right where I want to mount the antenna.... so really I am just lazy :)
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #37  
I just installed AT&T Fixed Wireless at my place. It's basically like a cell phone/hotspot receiving the data from a nearby cell tower. Our FW antenna is about 4700 feet from the nearest cell tower. The installer said that in his experience, in our area, it works well at distances up to 1.5 miles depending on terrain, etc. We are in rural Georgia, living in the woods. The download throughput ranges from 10-40 mb depending on the traffic on the cell tower. Much better than our old DSL a 2-3 mb. AT&T was/is running a special offer of 340 GB per month for $60. We have only had it for 45 days and the first month we approached around 160 GB using a moderate amount of ROKU streaming daily. We're happy even though AT&T is the only game in town given our location.

SimS
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #38  
Just ordered UbiFi. So tired of Verizon and capping. Our plan shares 3 phones and home mini-tower for home internet. 50 GB per month, then throttled. So for 2 days each month, we have good speed on the internet, then it is throttled the rest of the month (I have 2 teenagers). Often times, the home internet just goes out for days at a time. We call and complain, but by the time a tech calls back, it's back on. Very hard to stream most of the time, most shows will stop and buffer repeatedly and the picture quality is terrible.

Over Christmas break, my wife and one daughter had their phones on wifi, so they were burning the home internet connection. I was 2 weeks into my current month and the home internet went dead. We called and told that even though it's unlimited per se, the home one takes more juice so once it hits a limit, it's done for the month. The phones still have their internet, but good luck streaming anything. No internet at all for the next 2 weeks when I'm paying like $330 a month for 3 phones and home "UNLIMITED" internet? Heck no. I finally decided to get this UbiFi and give it a try.

Hope it works well, because I can't wait to cancel the Verizon home piece of our bill.
 
/ Ubifi Rural Internet #39  
We routinely use 100+GB per month, more now that our daughter has moved in, and have never been throttled with our UbiFi. I think you'll be happy with the change.
 
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I don稚 use that kind of data. I found this because out where I live dsl was even flakey.
 

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