I have been away for a day or two to take vacation from work and I am glad to find that there is a lot of information that have been found out by the community of RW. I do appreciate all that has taken the time and effort to find the information for seeing if I can find a better solution or improve on the situation that I am in. If it was not for what is going on with this Covid crisis that our country and at some point our area might be facing, I would not be looking so hard for a solution that needs to be handled. From what I have been asking around with my company is the following that might possibly be workable for me.
- Purchase a USB power supply dedicated for just the modem. I have tested the modem that I own and it uses very little wattage so if I purchase a semi large capacity power supply, I might still be able to have internet connection for overnight if we were to have storms and I could still be notified by WiFi.
- Request an upgrade to my line for a repeater to be placed between the main box at the road on Highway 7 and the county road I live on so that I could be assured of receiving full service of DSL at my home.
FYI, I’m with Windstream and I have an unlimited internet DSL account that I have been grandfathered in at 1.5 MB/s but only getting at most 160 KB/s. It has been that way for many years and documented by a Windstream Tech person that came to my house to check the line at least 5 to 7 years back.
This written request is coming from the main boss of my organization in the city of Arkadelphia, AR. to the company of Windstream, saying, as an essential employee, I may be required to do my job at home as a remote employee given certain situations and that a service enhancement for my service location is needed. When the internet is working, I can do my job without too much wait time and can still tell what is happening where I work. If the internet here since all the flooding around the area, I’m lucky if I can get signal for DSL at home at all. A good example is yesterday, storms moved in and dumped another 3 inches of rain on top of the 4 to 5 inches already from previous days, this resulted in me being out of signal for a half of a day if not a little more than that. I would love to hopefully see that happen if Windstream will act on that written request.
I know that it could improve a little bit in my area if cell towers were in operation but with lots and lots of trees to block cell towers and the closest tower I have to really work with is maybe not even being used but being in reserve and waiting for use in the future. I just want to yell it out that that future is NOW.
I will keep this topic open for a few more days but from what I have read and understand for what has been found in this thread, I have limited options for improvement.
I can’t switch to another company because the tower that gives me the best cell service is not registered as a working tower by a cell company but owned by a non cell company that sets them up for later renting by cell companies.
I can’t switch to another DSL provider because they would use the same line that Windstream owns and provided the service to my location with said same line.
I have to use my own funds for keeping the internet alive during a power outage which I can understand and have to wait for the request for service improvement from a written request from my city employer.
Thanks a bunch everyone that was a very helpful and I hope that others that might be in a similar situation find their solution in some way.
I would like to give thanks for the persons: {louisdi, majorninth, rolandh, planetherapist, cbwahlstrom and southpaw and any other ambassadors of republic wireless that sill might comment in the coming days and for finding the information, giving me possible solutions and or trying something that I have not thought of.} Thanks again, I will close this thread in a few more days but I appreciate all the help even though it is not exactly solved in the way that I would like.