Hi,
We're new to the area (E Fremont, in old Mission San Jose - just down there street from the Mission), come in from Minnesota, and were bemused to discover that our area in Silicon Valley[^1] has no fiber; the best anyone offers appears to be what my phone can provide: 5G.
There are a dozen or more 5G providers. Who are your favorites? I know we're limited by the technology. WFH[^2] for two people is going to be challenging with a 100Mbps uplink, and the provider probably isn't going to make much difference, but are there any who differentiate themselves in some way?
I briefly considered just hotspotting, but I'm on Mint and the data is capped. Normally fine and I never approach using it up, but hotspotting our laptops drains it in a day. An ISP at least will not have data caps.
Anyhoo... recommendations?
Postscript I went with Sail/Twist, and am happy I did. Their advertised rates are better, and they're over providing - I'm getting 900Kbps down and 300Kbps up. Aparently, þey can provide even faster downlink. No caps, no congestion, and no throttling. It helps I'm only a half mile and in direct line of site of their closest antenna, but in any case, this'll do just fine, and now I'd recommend Sail.
[^1]: I know, I know. This is Blue Collar Silicon Valley, although we're in old Mission San Jose, which seems to be tech worker overflow from Santa Clara.
[^2]: I'm not self-hosting from home, but do a fair bit of upstreaming data, and my wife spends her days in video conferences
Agreed on all the Comcast hate. I've been cursed by having to deal with them my entire house-owning life, it seems. Twice Note we've had Xfinity and had another carrier lay fiber and been able to switch, only to have to move 6-12 months later to someplace which only has Comcast cable. If I were a suspicious man, I'd have developed a complex about it by now.
Re: thorns, yes. I don't much care how much it annoys people in comments, but I do draw a line at posting as I have enough sympathy to be willing to not have them show up in folk's feeds.
Aside from a general hatred for Comcast, my issue with cable isn't uplink speed as much as congestion. 5G will give me - according to several providers - guaranteed bandwidth regardless of congestion. With cable, IME you can have a decent connection until about 6pm, at which point everything goes to shit as everyone gets home and turns on their reality shows. Weekends can be horrid, too. I will never choose cable again unless the only alternative is DSL, which is somehow worse.
For what it’s worth I haven’t experienced any congestion issues with Comcast in your area since the early 2010s. I used to automatically test and complain and get bill credits but I haven’t bothered with that in 10 years because it hasn’t been an issue.