Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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This is it: Verizon Jetpack MiFi 6620L | Verizon Wireless
It uses the cell towers to connect to the Internet. It ALSO has a wireless router built in so your Wi-Fi devices can get to the Internet through it. You need a substantial data plan to use it a lot. |
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A couple of things. There isn't really much in the way of 4K programming material.
Rather than get phone service, use a Voice-over-IP phone service such as Ooma, Magicjacks, etc. for much lower cost or just use cell phones. Ooma runs me $3.50/month. 10 Mbits/sec is fine for most people. If you stream Netflix, you need 3-5 Mbits/sec for Hi-Def. Netflix apparently has some very limited 4K material and I understand you need something more like 20 MBits/sec for 4K. I pay about $45/month for CenturyLink 40 Mbits/sec. It is a bit of an overkill but I got a good deal and I do occasionally move 50 GByte files around for work. Quote:
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You have started another thread asking essentially the same question as your first thread.
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I know. Didn't get a direct answer to threat so was trying again
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If you are south of 466A, the choices are Comcast, Brighthouse, and CenturyLink. I don't believe there is Brighthouse north of 466A. One person already responded about using Verizon for cell-tower based internet access. Those are pretty much the choices.
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Just called century link. Will try Verizon next. Want to leave Comcast we are centrally located, near Lk sumter
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There's very little 4K content out there. Minimum requirement 20Mbps.
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There are no copper phone lines south of 466A? |
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I believe that is correct.
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With CenturyLink, if you want, for whatever reason, the higher bandwidths you need to have fiber to the house. Older, copper-based DSL will not support the higher bandwidths.
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There are no more "phone lines" anymore - just datapipes ...
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Just to clarify, if you have CenturyLink fiber optics to the house then voice, internet data, and TV (their IPTV offereing) all come down the fiber. They don't have separate copper for voice.
I believe there may be some areas within The Villages that CenturyLink still uses the older copper wire for voice, internet, and possibly IPTV. With copper wire, achievable bandwidths are a function of the distance from the switching station. With Fiber, it doesn't matter. |
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We use viatalk for our home phone, very reliable and clear. $100 year. Every feature imagineable on it. I like that I can go online and see every call in or out, block any number that is trying to sell me something and get my messages anywhere. I can even take it to the cottage with me or put a feature on my laptop to get my calls there. (Called soft phone) it also gives me two lines, different rings for different family members and so on. We have used them for ten years.
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Never ever buy the cable companies phone service. It's a rip off. There are tons of Other Internet phone services. We've been using Omma for many years now.
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