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My dad was at the end of the line with DSL in rural north FL. Similar prices for a few MBps. Finally switched over to ATT unlimited cell service, getting 40 MBps with some kind of deal on direct tv. So much better. He has dual directional antennas points them at various towers trying to get best signal.

Rural cellular is the future. Currently posting this from the mountains of NC on Exceed satellite as there is no cell service at this campground...

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I'm curious how that connection to a sat net works with a normal consumer laptop. Or do you have some fancy General Dyn laptop?

No satellite service is mentioned in the GP comment. I expect they're just using a fixed 4G modem that has Wi-Fi.

Satellite services also generally consist of a box with a couple of LNB connectors on one end and an Ethernet socket on the other end that you'd run to a Wi-Fi router.

The likelihood you'll ever find a direct-wired satellite link built-in to one machine, outside of a ridiculou$ly-expen$ive military setting running equipment based of 15-year-old designs, is about 0.05%.

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