Comcast in Albuquerque, uggh
I do get cable TV with internet, so do not know how to break it down.
220 channels
112Mbps down 5Mbps up
$160.00 / month
I would gladly drop cable (and Comcast) if I could get 250Mbps up and down for less than $100
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I’d be interested if the number of satellites will minimize the chance of outages. It’s my understanding that satellite as it is now will drop out from something as mild as a storm or even just a really overcast sky. Since I’m in a party of the country that has a long rainy season, and since my Internet connection is my livelihood, I need it to be up 24x7 or at least have no more than a couple of outages a year.
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Well my experiences with ExpressVu (former name for Bell Canada’s satellite TV service) more than a decade ago weren’t too bad. If it was a very intense thunderstorm, it could be affected, and there are a couple of times a year when sun fade occurs (for geostationary satellites.) The LEO satellites are going to be moving REALLY fast, this is the reason why they want so many of them. You’re going to be handing off between satellites very frequently, on the order of one a minute or something, I’d wager. The biggest difference is that you need to transmit to them, not just receive from them. This means the base station needs to be able to track them reliably, I’d be interested to see a technical presentation on how the tech will work.
Quote from https://www.iridium.com/blog/2018/09/11/satellites-101-leo-vs-geo/ :
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200/50 $15 but I get this, and it is going even higher on good source. Steam geting 360 easily.
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I have Optimum/Altice here in NJ. It is $99.00/month for 200Mbps down 30mbps up
Plus $10 a month for Modem rental.
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US Internet fiber to the premises, 300 up and down for $50.
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To give an indication of the price you can get, I’m paying £24 (31USD) per month for the same speed,
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Just out of interest, because this wasn’t available when I left the UK 10 years ago, does your phone connection connect to your modem/router or to your phone socket? This type of connection is FTTN in Australia (fibre to the node - FTTC is fibre to the curb here so fibre is nearer the house) and connections are basically data only and phone service is over VOIP, connected to your modem/router.
Australia’s NBN flavour of FTTP (which I have) uses a single GPON fibre connected to a box on the inside of the house, with four RJ45 ethernet jacks (called UNI-D by NBN) for up to four different ISPs and two RJ11 jacks for phone service (called UNI-V by NBN). In practice, most ISPs offer phone service over VOIP from modem/router rather than using the UNI-V ports on the NTD (Network Termination Device).
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My connection is: BT master socket where you used to plug your phone in to is essentially the same. But now I plug a micro filter device in to the BT master socket. The micro filter has two sockets on it. You now plug the phone in to one and the router in to the other. From memory this helps filter the line so the phone and broadband can work on the same line. Only two wires are used in the cable connected to the outside of the house from the telephone pole. Modern installations have a BT master socket with two sockets and micro filter built in, which makes it neater. So I my understanding is that the phone service is not voip at least for me.
The UK is mostly running on combined router modems in domestic situations from my experience.
Two socket BT master socket. Phone in one. Router in to the other. Micro filter is built in.
One socket BT master socket.
Micro filter
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Okay, so still POTS calls over the lead-in. POTS services have been cut for everyone with fixed wired broadband on the NBN - even the service over the UNI-V ports are basically VOIP. No power, no phone (though I just use mobile).
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So this means no emergency calls can be made when the power is off I guess. I see warning in the UK on services that rely on grid power. Less of an issue with mobile phone these days. I enjoyed reading about micro harvesting the power from the phone line in the past.
We rarely use our home phone either. My partners parents have not moved to the mobile age so they are the only ones that the home phone gets used for.
My mobile signal is not great at home but I use Signal messenger for voice/text/video for most regular contacts. My phone network does allow wifi calling and they used to have an app for it. They have discontinued the app and use the mobiles built in wifi calling now. But as I buy my phones outright and sim free and not from the mobile network operator it does not have the cell networks custom android installed so I can not use wifi calling. I did look at getting a femtocell but things work enough for my use atm.
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Yep, there is that. Original fibre rollout provided a backup battery to keep the NTD running during power failure, but that isn’t provided anymore. Mobile is pretty much reliable enough these days and rural areas that do not have fixed line broadband still has POTS.
I wonder how wifi calling is provisioned on iPhones. As far as I know there are no special operator builds of iOS to provide wifi calling, but I can use wifi calling no problem at home.
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250 mbit/s down, 40 mbit/s up. About 60 EUR / 65 USD including phone and TV over IP.
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We pay 2 euros per month, as part of a deal between the operator and our three-story apartment complex. Location: Helsinki, Finland. Fiber, RJ-45 from the wall.
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2 euros! Is the bandwidth shared with all residents? Do you get slowdowns during busy periods?
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Is this Three rah? If so they spun me a similar story when I wanted to get VoWiFi/VoLTE working on my Android. Wanted me to buy one of their handsets. On Pie I got it working after a bit of research. On Android 10 it just works. OnePlus 6.
Hi Jamze, yes it is Three. I have an LG G6 H870 on stock LG Pie. I used / tried various combinations of information contained on this page and others.
I put the code in and enable items as described but wifi calling is still not appearing in the menus. The IMS registration is the sticking point. One IMS menu says not supported and another IMS menu just shows a blank screen.
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Ah OK looks like you’ve already tried it.
It’s just a switch in the OS AFAIK, and on the OnePlus *#800# typed into the dialler give you access to the ‘function switches’ where you can turn it on.
I typed that *#800# and no menu so I changed the 800 to 870 for my model number and received a hidden menu but no wifi calling options. I will be getting a new phone shortly so hopefully more luck with that.
Below is a screen grab of one of the menu items… I am getting my tinfoil hat now! 
Which leads to:
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Haha! That isn’t a 5G phone is it? I guess they share generic menus. NSA = non-standalone - I think most 5G networks currently run in non-standalone mode, which relies on LTE for signalling. Standalone mode does not require LTE.
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