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Now on Linode | |
July 10th, 2020 | |
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The ISP I have been using, Carolina Telephone (Centurylink) has become | |
so insufferably slow in my area that I have switched from self-hosting | |
to using a Linode VPS. Now my personal gopher site is no longer retro | |
because it loads so quickly. Goodbye 90's dialup modem feel! | |
As far as my home internet goes, I am thinking of using a Netgear | |
LB1121 and buying some service from a T-Mobile or AT&T reseller or | |
MVNO... I have no idea where the local AT&T tower is, or which | |
frequency band they use around here, but I do know I get signal, my | |
phones are always hooked onto AT&T when they are in "emergency calls | |
only" mode. As for T-Mobile, there's a tower roughly 12 miles away | |
NLoS through some thick forest, but band 2 and 71 come in just fine | |
outdoors. | |
If anyone has any ideas for AT&T or T-Mobile services that have a | |
very high quota or unlimited services hit me up in the comment | |
section. | |
Likewise if someone can think of good external antennas for the | |
LB1121 *OR* a whole different modem (such as one with band 71 and/or | |
5G support) that doesn't cost a fortune, the comments are open. | |
Should be interesting. | |
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