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The internet has been painfully slow to non-existent for days now. Kim called the provider and they said there was nothing wrong on their end. They said they'd be out next Tuesday to adjust the radio receiver on the side of the house. I got thinking this morning, there's a tree by the gas barrel with grape vines growing up over it and grape vines growing up two corn cribs, all between the receiver and the tower that our signal come off of. We had virtually no internet this morning. I went out and did some trimming with the chainsaw and that was the problem. Not to say the tree wasn't a good part of it, but I think those grape vines finally got thick enough to block the signal. A few big branches are gone from the tree now too, so we should be good for a while.

It happened to the satellite dish one time too and we had to take the top off two trees to remedy that.
 
Some are saying 5G wireless internet is the new internet.
My problem, I live in a verizon dead zone.
 
Yep, had my temp antenna pole set up near the RV Im living in while house being built. Have to point it towards the Blue Mountain over by Monticello, UT. As soon as the metal roof was installed I lost reception. Just had to reposition the antenna pole for the time being.
 
Mine has been much slower and nothing is different here. It seem to coincide with Spectrum installing cable on the road out front. Have to wonder if that is their doing to sell internet.
 
(quoted from post at 09:27:56 06/09/23) Mine has been much slower and nothing is different here. It seem to coincide with Spectrum installing cable on the road out front. Have to wonder if that is their doing to sell internet.
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or about $3,000 you can get Starlink....no tree problems. :)
 
Our tech guy told me that our internet signal slows down in the summer because of growing crops. We get our internet via FM signal from a tower about 8 miles away. He said the crops and trees dampen the signal somewhat even if not directly obstructing the signal. I kind of raised one eyebrow but that was his explanation. :-/ When they upgraded their equipment several years ago it got significantly better so maybe it wasn't the corn after all.
 
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(quoted from post at 09:27:56 06/09/23) Mine has been much slower and nothing is different here. It seem to coincide with Spectrum installing cable on the road out front. Have to wonder if that is their doing to sell internet.
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or about $3,000 you can get Starlink....no tree problems. :)
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And internet when it rains.
 
15 or 20 years ago, before we got satellite Internet, our signal came from the top of a grain elevator about 5 miles away. The signal came right across the tops of trees to a device on a pole on top of our house.

During the summer, when the trees were fully leafed out on days when the wind would blow the trees our Internet reception was a bit sporadic.
 
Only one Verizon tower in the country.
Verizon gives priority to Verizon customers.
All the rest piggy back off Verizon.
 
(quoted from post at 10:46:19 06/09/23)
(quoted from post at 09:27:56 06/09/23) Mine has been much slower and nothing is different here. It seem to coincide with Spectrum installing cable on the road out front. Have to wonder if that is their doing to sell internet.
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or about $3,000 you can get Starlink....no tree problems. :)
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Is that for mobile starlink (for RVs)? For my house it was $600 and then $120 / month. It has worked very well. Before that I only had DSL and it was so slow it was unusable for streaming and even downloading software updates was impossible if the file was large.
 
Starlink here as well. Fixed Residential with the equipment cost (I forget exact number), and $120.00 a month. Never quits, even in normal rain. In a monsoon it might fail, but that doesn't happen where I live.
Used to use Verizon wireless (tower 2.8 miles away), but signal was weak; had to use outside directional antennas.
No hope for any type of wired anything here; only electric service. No cable, phone, etc. Never going to be fiber here.
Starlink best thing going for those for which there is limited or no other options.
Starlink mobile (RV), marine and business are quite a bit more expensive, and, unless you live exclusively in a traveling-around-the-country RV, or need the extreme reliability, not necessary.
 
We had it through the phone line once, then they said they were changing to this. There's a big tower two miles straight south of us with a clear field of vision to it. Except the tree and vines that I let grow up. LOL
 
Yep. I've got T Mobile home internet. 50 bucks a month. No slow spots. No problems at all. Couldn't dump Centurystink fast enough.
 
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