Can I assume you are in a rural area? For a question like this, location is extremely important. If you have neighbors with a need for fast access as well, you may be able to form a cooperative and run lines between your homes, and pay for a hardline drop to your neighborhood.
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If you’re out in an area with no cable / fiber connection, you are at the mercy of your WISP infrastructure. Period. Their node (tower radio) is probably a few miles away and there’s only so much one can do.
LTE / 5G might be an option, but is likely slower and worse latency.
Either a) contract fiber to your place for $50k-$100k B) live with what you have C) move.
With a 8 SU limitation, sounds more like a 802.11ad solution is in use.
Probably. OP is probably at long distance and 80mb (of actual throughput) is probably being optimistic.
If you've got 5g (or really good 4g) towers - caylxinstitute - unlimited hotspot. Runs on tmobile towers. I'm in the middle of nowhere and average 45down on it with 8mb up. If I take it with me and hit good towers I've seen over 1gb down on it.
Issue with 5G is gaining access to non NAT public Static IP address for hosting. You could use DynDNS or similar, but I always struggled hosting real services behind a 3G/4G network.
Everything is extremely slow and laggy.
Things you can do to improve that from your side.
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Make sure your servers and devices are cabled, this has reduced latency over wireless. Every hop will add more.
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Run your AnyDesk, devices, host and vms with in performance mode, balanced and power saving modes put devices into low power or sleep states that add to their spin up time when someone accesses them.
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Run your storage from ZFS and services (SQL, Web Servers and Web APPS) from arc cache. Arc cache will reduce web page load times and latency from 7seconds, 7000ms to 63ms on device when paired with HTTP2/3. You will add on average 50ms from each cabled hop and 80ms from each wireless hop.
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Install SSL certificates and tell everything to use HTTP2.0 or HTTP3.0, with QUIC where possible as this reduces latency and pushes data using multiple streams.
What you describe actually sounds pretty good for a WISP. Often speeds are much less than 50Mbps with wireless providers.
Also the fact that they tell you the transmitter on their tower is at capacity (8 connections) is actually a sign of a good ISP. Some WISPs will keep piling on the customers even though their towers are way over capacity, then everyone's connection suffers greatly as a result.
What is your upload speed? I'd wager that's what's really limiting you here.