We too live in the countryside but Spain. No chance of copper or fibre ever..
Our choice is 4G or 5G ( when available) The 5G will have roughly the same footprint as 4G . At max 20 meg 4 G works for TV streaming until “ rush hour” . Schools in/ out, work finishes, adverts on popular programmes etc etc. Up is 700k so useless for video conferencing.
Spain has a programme to enable everyone to get fast internet. We get HispaSat internet. 100 meg down and 7 meg up for 35 euros a month - Free install. It works great for tv streaming but has a big ping so no good for interactive internet gaming. We are currently waiting for technician to visit to give us a free speed upgrade.
Our install is a 90 cm dish facing South East , cable to a good quality router
Similar technology to Starlink. Starlink have offers . Look out for one……..
Nothing like Starlink, totally different tech, HispaSat is Geo tech, Starlink is LEO.
Hence you get horrific latency as the round trip delay can be half a second and with bandwidth levelling up to a second.
LEOs are so much closer that the latency is not that different to cellular
My bad, didn’t know they were different technologies. You are right about the high latency. You get used to it. Streams HD TV fine for us. Mind you , like Opti, I can only make comparisons with 4G and 3G before that.
I am not convinced 5G would be any better unless they put up a new mast near your house.
Our supply company for Hispasat are coming to do a free upgrade. I am always suspicious of such things. Pointing us to a different satellite? Installing a bigger dish? Changing the router for one I cannot alter the DNS…… we will see.
Funnily enough, I am just about to do a reply to someone on an expat forum who has Hispasat and says it is rubbish and is looking to go to Starlink. I will be interested to see how they get on.