It's been 2 1/2 years since we've had the Internet out of our home. The last few months have been a matter of just getting things setup since, as an employee of the ISP, I get my Internet at a substantial discount.
The last time someone had come out to set up my Internet, they claimed they couldn't get a signal. And since they never made a ticket, I couldn't look in our billing software to see why they didn't install. After all, I know we're in a prime location; the tower is less than 1000 feet from our front door, with a mostly clear shot (some foliage, but a this tower frequency will penetrate foliage).
So we finally got our guys on the stick and got setup. That "crappy" signal has 0% error rate and 1.5-2.5 mbps speeds. Not SOHO speeds, mind you, but we don't have the frequency in our small town for that kind of connection. More than ample speeds, to be sure.
SO now we're going to set up a crazy cool home network and hit the Internet full force. Like I NEED to spend more time on the 'net...lol!