Internet Service around Lampe/Baxter area?

[176champion]

I just hooked up with suddenlink 100Mbps at 48 bucks amonth with taxes and so far it's been great, I can download a 60 gig game in like 1hr 10 minutes and have run speedtest and it showed 106Mbps download..

[bobby b.]

1 hour ago, m&m said:

bobby, I have a consulting business so I wanted unlimited internet. We pay $150.00 a month for unlimited and it is at 30mbs download speed. We get the buffering thing also for about 10 seconds when we down load a movie. Been very happy with the service.

Mike

Mike,

Thanks

Bobby

[Ellros]

3 hours ago, 176champion said:

I just hooked up with suddenlink 100Mbps at 48 bucks amonth with taxes and so far it's been great, I can download a 60 gig game in like 1hr 10 minutes and have run speedtest and it showed 106Mbps download..

   Unfortunately, that level of speed isn't available in the Table Rock area.  Best they could provide on the North side of TR is 30mbs down and 2.5mbs up.  They told me their infrastructure in this area won't support it, and they had no plans to improve anything anytime soon.

[gitnby]

I have Century Link DSL (phone line) up here by Hideaway Marina. No issues with streaming movies on Amazon firestick, and solid service so far.

Never tested the speed, but listed as 40MB. Very happy with it.

$55/month including their modem/router. 

[skeeter]

We've had Centurylink in the immediate Baxter area since 2004.  Started off with gosh-awful Dial-up and then they thankfully upgraded to DSL.  We get a reliable 8Mbps and if our home's wires on the poles was just 200' closer to their "Office" at the entrance to Briar Cliff we would get 10Mbps but distance over these antiquated phone wires chokes us down in speeds. 

A few things I've discovered over the years: 

If your place is on the Little Indian Lake-arm side of the ridge that Highway "H" comes down, there is a chance you can get Total High Speed's radio signal from their antenna at Black Oak.  If you are on the other side of "H".....NOT.  Suggest you investigate by calling them and they can pull up your address and tell you if you are a candidate but the last time I checked with them I was not impressed with their speed nor their prices and cannot receive it here anyway.  

Suddenlink, nor any other Cable is not available South of the Bridge. 

A few years ago, Centurylink brought new, underground copper wire down to their "Office" building at Briar Cliff's entrance that enabled the 10Mbps via DSL.  If they ever should bring Fiber down to that Briar Cliff office like they recently did (per Matt Bell at Bell Computer) in their upgrade to the Cape Fair area that will potentially increase our speeds to 40Mbps but, again, the antiquated phone lines in the area, going back to the late 1950's, will choke that down. 

As far as "reliability", one thing that greatly increased ours was to call Centurylink's Internet Repair and complain 1-855-331-1346 about how unreliable your internet service is.  They should offer to send out a Field Service Tech.  Have him check and determine if you have the old fashioned 2-wire phone line in your place (most around here do have that) and when he verifies that you do, ask him to install, at no cost to you, what the Service Techs call a "Home Run" with modern CAT5-wire direct from the phone access box on the outside (where your phone line enters the place) and route it directly to your Modem.  After many, many complaints and service calls 8-10 years ago, they finally sent a more tech-savvy young guy out and he identified the old 2-wire phone line as being the problem and did a really nice job installing the "Home Run" here and at our neighbor's and it has made a huge difference.  

If you currently have Centurylink in the Baxter area, I'd strongly suggest you consider retaining your account because I've been seeing multiple complaints from new property owners in the area on Social Media (Table Rock Lake Group) that when they call Centurylink to get hooked-up they are being declined and told Centurylink is "full-up" in the area and is not accepting new customers !! 

We also tried doing the Cell Phone modem thing ( 25 Mbps if memory serves unless there is a lot of traffic on the AT&T cell-tower over in Viola ) and bought AT&T's necessary hardware but they lie about what size of Monthly Data Plan you will need and we quickly and very expensively exceeded ours and told them where they could shove their service, after getting "dinged" with a 30% re-stocking fee for the returned hardware at their Branson Corporate store. 

Good Luck !  Let us know how you did please.....

[Lake Lover]

29 minutes ago, skeeter said:

We've had Centurylink in the immediate Baxter area since 2004.  Started off with gosh-awful Dial-up and then they thankfully upgraded to DSL.  We get a reliable 8Mbps and if our home's wires on the poles was just 200' closer to their "Office" at the entrance to Briar Cliff we would get 10Mbps but distance over these antiquated phone wires chokes us down in speeds. 

A few things I've discovered over the years: 

If your place is on the Little Indian Lake-arm side of the ridge that Highway "H" comes down, there is a chance you can get Total High Speed's radio signal from their antenna at Black Oak.  If you are on the other side of "H".....NOT.  Suggest you investigate by calling them and they can pull up your address and tell you if you are a candidate but the last time I checked with them I was not impressed with their speed nor their prices and cannot receive it here anyway.  

Suddenlink, nor any other Cable is not available South of the Bridge. 

A few years ago, Centurylink brought new, underground copper wire down to their "Office" building at Briar Cliff's entrance that enabled the 10Mbps via DSL.  If they ever should bring Fiber down to that Briar Cliff office like they recently did (per Matt Bell at Bell Computer) in their upgrade to the Cape Fair area that will potentially increase our speeds to 40Mbps but, again, the antiquated phone lines in the area, going back to the late 1950's, will choke that down. 

As far as "reliability", one thing that greatly increased ours was to call Centurylink's Internet Repair and complain 1-855-331-1346 about how unreliable your internet service is.  They should offer to send out a Field Service Tech.  Have him check and determine if you have the old fashioned 2-wire phone line in your place (most around here do have that) and when he verifies that you do, ask him to install, at no cost to you, what the Service Techs call a "Home Run" with modern CAT5-wire direct from the phone access box on the outside (where your phone line enters the place) and route it directly to your Modem.  After many, many complaints and service calls 8-10 years ago, they finally sent a more tech-savvy young guy out and he identified the old 2-wire phone line as being the problem and did a really nice job installing the "Home Run" here and at our neighbor's and it has made a huge difference.  

If you currently have Centurylink in the Baxter area, I'd strongly suggest you consider retaining your account because I've been seeing multiple complaints from new property owners in the area on Social Media (Table Rock Lake Group) that when they call Centurylink to get hooked-up they are being declined and told Centurylink is "full-up" in the area and is not accepting new customers !! 

We also tried doing the Cell Phone modem thing ( 25 Mbps if memory serves unless there is a lot of traffic on the AT&T cell-tower over in Viola ) and bought AT&T's necessary hardware but they lie about what size of Monthly Data Plan you will need and we quickly and very expensively exceeded ours and told them where they could shove their service, after getting "dinged" with a 30% re-stocking fee for the returned hardware at their Branson Corporate store. 

Good Luck !  Let us know how you did please.....

That's a good idea on the cat 5 home run line to the modem, that makes perfect sense.    Thanks for the info Skeeter!

[WWM]

Really appreciate all the feedback. Sounds like I’ll start with calling century link to complain about the service and ask for the cat 5 wiring before I cancel and go with new company. Thanks skeeter!

[bobby b.]

I talked to a Suddenlink Tech that was doing some survey work on our street last week.  He told be that Suddenlink has budgeted and already purchased equipment to do complete upgrades to their equipment in the Branson West area as they recognize their service is terrible.  He claimed this will result in Gigbit speed. Interestingly enough, my bill went up again this month by $2.50 for something called "Network Enhancement".  Hope it's true.

Bobby 

[Ellros]

20 hours ago, bobby b. said:

I talked to a Suddenlink Tech that was doing some survey work on our street last week.  He told be that Suddenlink has budgeted and already purchased equipment to do complete upgrades to their equipment in the Branson West area as they recognize their service is terrible.  He claimed this will result in Gigbit speed. Interestingly enough, my bill went up again this month by $2.50 for something called "Network Enhancement".  Hope it's true.

Bobby 

OMG.  They finally realized that.  After I complained to them for MONTHS about how bad it was.  And listening to them tell me... "We see no problems", or "We know it's bad, but there is nothing we can do about it".  All depended on which phone-in tech support person I spoke to.

[TableRockBoater]

On 1/31/2019 at 2:48 PM, WWM said:

Can anyone point me towards an internet service provider around the Baxter area that is worth paying for. The Century Link we pay $45 a month for is a absolute joke it be called high speed. ATT LTE is usually 3-4 times faster on my phone. 

Any advice would be much appreciated. 

We have $45-For-Life Clink in the Lampe area, and it's just fine 99.99999999% of the time.

Much better than it used to be.