I live in an area where there is no viable internet. Just to give the only example, the only company in our area charges (this is where you fall over laughing... so sit down) $85 per month for 4 Mbps!! That is NOT a typo.

At this point, I am willing to put out the money to start a 4g LTE ISP. I provide the gear and they pay for the service.

1- I am looking at the LHG LTE6 kit connected to a wireless router in the home.

2- As for the sim cards, I would like to here your advice on this too. Will any carrier work? I do know that the bands are important. Some bands are used by all, then some strictly used by certain carriers. For example, Nobody but Sprint uses band 25 in the USA (where I will set this up).

I live in rural California and was paying $92 per month for 6 Mbps down and 1.3 Mbps to a local WISP. Did that for about 3 years.
Switched to using Mikrotik LHG LTE kit-US for about a 6 weeks ago with AT&T. Getting about 15 Mbps, up and down.
For dual WAN/failover/backup with Verizon, will get SXT or another LHG to use with newer CAT12+ modem from either Quectel, Sierra Wireless and/or Telit (unless Mikrotik comes to US market with comparable modem).

Have you tried switching bands to increase speeds?

Have you tried switching bands to increase speeds?

Not sure that functionality is offered in US version of CAT4 modem that is included with LHG R. But the modem seems to do that from time to time and I do get higher speeds at that time. There are many many trees in between the tower and my location.

I need to upgrade the modem, but normal process has not been working. Waiting for backup solution to be in place before I take down the LHG R and try troubleshooting it.

You're looking at thousands of dollars per month for Internet suitable for a WISP and it probably won't be delivered to where you need it.

LONG LONG ago, there was a user here that started his WISP from a cable modem at a buddies house. Backhaul was to his grain bin ( Tall one) and then he resold his internet. Got a few users, and then got more and more. So, when there is no other option, just mooch off the cable company and be sure to get unlimited data. Find a friend or some place you can set up the service, beam it over to another and just tell everyone like I do.. I don't guarantee the service. It will probably work, but if it doesn't, don't bother me. Anyway, I didn't use the farm grain bins, that was someone else, and they may even still be a user on here.

At one time I had 8 places networked together. so 8 X$80/month = 640/month X 12 = 7680 / year x10 years = 76800 You tell me, was it worth buying 3 grand worth of Mikrotik Hardware to do this?