The other other option

The router lives in the window now.

Fixed wireless hands you one box and a puzzle: find the single place in the house where it works, then arrange your life around it. Push it to the window and the back bedroom goes dark. Move it to the middle and the tower stops answering. Here's the floor plan — go ahead and find the spot.

How busy the tower is

Drag the box around the house

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rooms that work from where the box is now

    Floor plan showing which rooms have usable signal.

    What the plan page doesn't mention

    It isn't the speed. It's the terms.

    Fixed wireless is a real product and a genuine improvement over what a lot of houses had before. It just comes with conditions that nobody reads out loud.

    Priority

    You're behind every phone on the tower

    Home internet rides the same airwaves as the phones in every car and pocket nearby, and it yields to them by design. That's not a fault — it's the deal. It just means your evening gets quieter as everyone else's gets busier.

    Drift

    It changes when the trees come back

    A signal through the air is a signal through whatever is in the air. Leaves in May, a wet spring, a new building on the lot behind you. The box that worked in February can quietly stop working in June, and nothing on your end changed.

    Neighbors

    It gets slower as it gets popular

    Every house on your street that signs up shares the same tower you do. You feel the success of the product you bought. A line in the ground doesn't work that way — what we built for your house stays yours.

    What an evening actually needs
    A box in the window
    OtterDrift
    Coverage in every room
    Wherever the one box reaches
    Designed for the whole house
    Being seen clearly on a call
    Sending is the weak direction
    Built to send, not just receive
    Cameras you can check from work
    Often blocked from the outside
    Reachable, and we set them up
    The same speed at 9pm as at 9am
    Yields to phone traffic
    Built for the busy hour
    Rearranging the living room
    Start the hunt over
    Move the furniture, that's all
    Something breaks on a Sunday
    A chat window and a carrier queue
    Somebody local, often same day