IGX

I need some Igx help.

I need to upgrade my internet service for business reasons. I recently moved and my new local cable internet has terrible internet connect rates.

So since I can expense this costs; can anyone recommend a great high speed wireless internet provider? I need something that can handle streaming software demos via WebEx.

I live in the Seattle Tacoma area so keep that in mind when you mention providers.

I used to have AT&T's Uverse, but I found them to be far less reliable than my local cable monopoly. Service calls with them, which were not infrequent, where difficult to schedule, never timely and always required a second technician to come out and actually fix the problem.

Unless you don't mind loose wires resulting in days of downtime, avoid Uverse.

I'm looking for totally mobile solution. Not just an internet for the home. The wife and kids can use cable internet, but I need to upgrade to something better and portable.

In my experience, in most of the country, cellular is your only realistic option if you get around much outside city limits. In most places 4G is still holding up pretty well, not as fast as when it was first rolled out but still fast enough for WebEx. Of course it could be different in your neighborhood, what with all those microsoft zillionaires kicking around.

I have found these little portable cellular hotspots that you can buy now are useful and better than hotspotting your phone. Here the Verizon Jetpack is the only one that really works, but it's going to depend on which carrier has the best 4G coverage and speeds where you are. The good thing is if you're at a place on the edge of coverage, you can put the puck where coverage is best and go work where you need to work. No more setting your laptop on the fire escape and reaching out the window to work.

A WebEx tip that might help, if your demo doesn't require super graphics - make the display that is shared for the demo as low-resolution and uncluttered as possible. I use screen sharing to support on older laptops with 1280x960 resolution over these hotspots, and it is usually fine.

It amazes me that this country still has internet issues when other places have internet damn near everywhere and it is blazingly fast.

For the money, ccrow is right. Hotspots are probably gonna be your best option.

Hard to comment since it's so variable. In my fucking neighborhood, with professional athletes, CEOs, physicians and politicians living there, AT&T can't be fucking bothered to put a tower near enough for reliable indoor service, nor can Verizon.