The long view

365 nights. Let's count them.

A clear Tuesday in summer is an easy night to win. Every connection ever sold wins that one. The question is the other three hundred and sixty-four — the sleet in February, the Sunday everybody's home, the night it matters most. So here's the whole year, one square at a time.

Where you live
What your evenings involve
365 evenings, about four seconds.

Every square is one evening at your place. Press play to run the year.

Press play to run a year of evenings.

Evenings lost
Rough enough to notice
Nobody thought about it

Set your year up and press play.

What went wrong, and when

    The log fills in as the year plays.

    Play the year, then switch the two above to run the exact same twelve months on a line that never leaves the neighborhood.

    What you're actually buying

    The price is the easy part to compare.

    Two services can cost the same on paper and cost wildly different amounts of your life. Here's what the sticker doesn't say.

    $0

    The gear you don't go buy

    A dish gets you one box and a good-luck. Every dead room after that is a mesh unit you research, buy, mount, and re-buy in three years. Coverage isn't an accessory here — it's the product.

    11 hrs

    The year you don't spend troubleshooting

    Unplug it, wait, plug it back in, run a speed test, search the forum, try again tomorrow. It's twenty minutes here and an hour there, and it adds up to most of a working day.

    12 min

    The drive when it's really broken

    Not a chat window. Not a replacement in the post with a tracking number. A person, in a vehicle, who will be at your door and knows the street they're driving to.

    What an evening actually needs
    A dish on the roof
    OtterDrift
    Coverage in the back bedroom
    Buy your own gear
    Included, and we tune it
    A night with weather in it
    The sky gets a vote
    Buried line, no opinion
    8pm, everybody home
    Shared overhead capacity
    Built for the busy hour
    Something breaks on a Sunday
    A form, and a shipping estimate
    Somebody local, often same day
    Knowing before you do
    Nobody is watching
    We watch it and usually beat you to it