I found this chat while browsing (slowly by force of poor coverage) in hopes of finding a provider that would give us better 3G data coverage. What I've learned by reading the majority of the comments from Gladwin to Harrison, Evart, Big Rapids, Lake, down our neck of the woods on through to Winn and towards Mount Pleasant... that it really doesn't matter who we have: until there are more towers near us, nothing is going to work worth while. We had AllTel, and of course have been forced to change to Verizon Wireless. Our feelings about help mirrors most we've read here. We did get the MiFi device from Verizon. If we drive into Lake we are pulling about 1.5MBps Down and 450KBps Up on the average. If we drive into Weidman we get 1MBps Down and 300KBps up on average. Here at the house we're lucky to get very poor intermittent 150KBps D / 110KBps U. We're awaiting a new house booster and antennas to replace what we have. Next investment will be a tower if the booster doesn't help much. After that fails I'll have to give up trying until Verizon puts up more towers or until we value the World Wide Web more than our location... we really don't want to move...
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