I want to make an offer on a house I viewed. It is in a semi-rural area about an hour north of Detroit, Michigan. There is no cable or fiber internet available there. My options are limited to standard satellite internet (Hughes/Viasat), 5G internet and Starlink (either Starlink Business or Starlink RV, at least until residential becomes available).
I am a data engineer and I work remote. I require my internet to be capable of handling daily video conferencing, music and video streaming, and occasional gaming. I cannot have my audio/video cutting out all the time during video conferencing while I'm at work. I'm thinking if I buy this house, my best option would be to use Starlink RV alongside 5G internet, using a peplink to allow for hot failover from the starlink to the 5G. The 5G plan I'm able to get will allow for an average of 30-80 download, 30-40 upload with uncapped data usage. It's $329/month for the 5G on top of the $135/month for Starlink RV, so I'd be paying a total of $464/month for internet. Expensive, but if that's the price I have to pay for quality internet, then so be it.
What I'm wondering is whether this will be feasible with the requirements I described above. Is it a good idea to buy this house and move to a place where this is my only chance for reliable internet? If it proves not to be reliable, I could lose my job. I would be forced to move out. So I want to make sure this will work before I make a grave mistake.
