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title: Compare Internet Providers in Northern Nevada
url: https://hdiss.net/compare/
business: High Desert Internet Services (HDISS)
phone: 775-575-9593, 775-391-5660
email: info@hdiss.net
mailing_address: Home base: 200 S Virginia St, Suite 760, Reno NV 89501 (dispatch office, not a walk-in store). Mail: Billing Dept., PO Box 11353, Reno NV 89510
hours: Office open 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, seven days a week. Network watched around the clock.
type: Fixed wireless internet service provider (homes and small businesses), web hosting, customer email, domain registration
service_area: Northern Nevada - Washoe, Lyon, Storey, Churchill and Douglas counties and Carson City; availability is checked address by address (line of sight to a tower)
plans: Bronze $50/mo up to 500 Mbps down, up to 200 Mbps up; Silver $75/mo up to 800 down, up to 200 up; Gold $99/mo up to 1 Gig down, up to 200 up; ask about the up to 1 Gig / 1 Gig ultra-low-latency service
no_online_purchase: true (check your address or call; existing customers pay at https://www2.fernley.net/hdiss/onlinepay/paymentform.cfm)
since: 2002
---

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# Comparing internet providers in Northern Nevada

Each comparison puts High Desert Internet next to one provider or one technology, using only facts that provider publishes itself, with the date we read them. We say what each is good for and leave out anything negative.

Our snowcat on the Singatse Range, January 26, 2023. Photo: High Desert Internet Services on Facebook. [Photo credits](https://hdiss.net/photo-credits/)

People choose between a cable company, a satellite dish, a phone company and a local wireless provider all the time. These pages lay the facts side by side so you can decide, whether or not you end up with us.

## How are the comparisons built?

For a provider, we read its plan page and write down the price, the speed up to, the contract terms, data rules and equipment it publishes. The table shows the date we read it, because plans change. Where a company does not publish a fee or a number, the table says not published on its site when read; we do not fill the gap from a website that ranks providers.

High Desert's side uses what the company publishes: Bronze at $50 a month, Silver at $75 a month and Gold at $99 a month, with speeds up to 500 Mbps, 800 Mbps and 1 Gig. Each page ends with two short lists of when each choice suits you, and a two-sentence verdict that stays neutral.

## Which comparisons are here?

Provider pages include [Spectrum](https://hdiss.net/compare/spectrum/), [AT&T](https://hdiss.net/compare/att/), [Starlink](https://hdiss.net/compare/starlink/), [HughesNet](https://hdiss.net/compare/hughesnet/), [Viasat](https://hdiss.net/compare/viasat/), [T-Mobile Home Internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/t-mobile-home-internet/) and [Verizon 5G Home](https://hdiss.net/compare/verizon-5g-home/), plus local wireless providers such as [Rango](https://hdiss.net/compare/rango/) and [Net NV](https://hdiss.net/compare/net-nv/).

Technology pages explain the kinds of connection: [fixed wireless vs satellite](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-satellite/), [vs cable](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-cable/), [vs fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-fiber/), [vs DSL](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-dsl/), [vs 5G home internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-5g-home-internet/) and [vs a phone hotspot](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-phone-hotspot/). The page on [satellite and tower latency](https://hdiss.net/compare/geo-vs-leo-vs-tower-latency/) uses only the FCC's measured figures.

## What is the point of the county-by-county records?

Under the provider list is a set of dated records that show, county by county, which providers reported service to the FCC in June 2021. They are historical and they describe other providers, not our footprint. Whether any provider reaches your house is a question for your address, and the [address check](https://hdiss.net/check-availability/) is how you ask us.

## Providers

- [High Desert vs Spectrum](https://hdiss.net/compare/spectrum/): Spectrum is cable internet that reaches a home through wires already on the street, and it publishes year-one prices of $30, $40 and $60 a month. High Desert is fixed wireless from a tower, with three plans at $50, $75 a
- [High Desert vs AT&T](https://hdiss.net/compare/att/): AT&T is not one product but three: AT&T Fiber, AT&T Internet over copper lines, and Internet Air over 5G or LTE, each with its own price and conditions. High Desert is one thing, fixed wireless from a tower,
- [High Desert vs Starlink](https://hdiss.net/compare/starlink/): Starlink is low-earth-orbit satellite service that a household self-installs wherever the dish has a clear view of the sky, with residential plans at $55, $85 and $130 a month. High Desert is fixed wireless from a local
- [High Desert vs HughesNet](https://hdiss.net/compare/hughesnet/): HughesNet sends internet through geostationary satellites about 22,000 miles up, with plans starting at $39.99 a month for 12 months and speeds of up to 100 Mbps. High Desert sends it from a local tower to an antenna on
- [High Desert vs Viasat](https://hdiss.net/compare/viasat/): Viasat sells three geostationary satellite plans with a first-year price and a higher price after it, from $39.99 a month rising to $69.99, plus a $15 monthly equipment lease. High Desert has three plans at $50, $75 and
- [High Desert vs T-Mobile Home Internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/t-mobile-home-internet/): T-Mobile Home Internet runs over T-Mobile's 5G and 4G LTE cell network with three plans at $50, $60 and $70 a month after its AutoPay discount, and typical download ranges it states itself. High Desert runs a radio
- [High Desert vs Verizon 5G Home](https://hdiss.net/compare/verizon-5g-home/): Verizon 5G Home uses Verizon's cell network with plans as low as $60, $70 and $85 a month and speeds of up to 100, 150 and 300 Mbps. High Desert uses a radio link from a local tower at $50, $75 and $99 a month, at u
- [High Desert vs Rango](https://hdiss.net/compare/rango/): Rango and High Desert are both fixed wireless providers in Northern Nevada, and both run month-to-month. Rango publishes two regional price lists, $70, $80 and $95 a month in most pages and $55, $65 and $85 in the Reno M
- [High Desert vs Sky Fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/sky-fiber/): Sky Fiber Internet describes itself as a hybrid fiber and fixed wireless provider in Reno, with four residential tiers from $49 to $99 a month and a business side that lists SLAs and colocation. High Desert is a fixed wi
- [High Desert vs Net NV](https://hdiss.net/compare/net-nv/): Net NV is a Reno-based fixed wireless operator that publishes one residential price, starting at $69 a month, with speeds from a minimum of 100 Mbps to up to 1.5 Gbps depending on location. High Desert publishes three pl
- [High Desert vs CC Communications](https://hdiss.net/compare/cc-communications/): CC Communications is the local fiber company in Churchill County, and says 98 percent of the county is fiber-connected, with speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second. High Desert is fixed wireless from a tower, for the roads
- [High Desert vs Avant Wireless](https://hdiss.net/compare/avant-wireless/): Avant Wireless is a small fixed wireless operator around Reno and Carson City that publishes an install fee, equipment prices and help desk hours, with a typical residential plan at $49.95 a month. High Desert publishes
- [High Desert vs XNET](https://hdiss.net/compare/xnet/): XNET WiFi sells cellular-based home internet that arrives as a device you set up yourself, with a 14-day trial and prices shown only after you enter an address. High Desert installs a tower link with a technician at $50,
- [High Desert vs EarthLink](https://hdiss.net/compare/earthlink/): EarthLink is a national retailer that places you on whichever underlying network reaches your address, whether fiber, 5G home internet or satellite, with wireless plans starting at $59.95 a month. High Desert runs its ow
- [High Desert vs Choice Broadband](https://hdiss.net/compare/choice-broadband/): Choice Broadband lists two broadband plans at $44.99 and $64.99 a month, a required $10 monthly service plan charge, and says Lifeline benefits can apply to plans rated at a minimum of 25 Mbps. High Desert lists three pl
- [High Desert vs Preferred Networks](https://hdiss.net/compare/preferred-networks/): Rango's city pages state that Preferred Networks, Inc. in Fallon and in Reno is now powered by Rango, and Preferred Networks has no separate plan list today. To compare plans, read the Rango page, and send an addres

## Technologies

- [Fixed wireless vs satellite internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-satellite/): Fixed wireless sends a radio signal from a tower a few miles away, while satellite internet sends it to a spacecraft and back, which for a geostationary satellite is about 22,000 miles each way. The difference shows up m
- [Fixed wireless vs cable internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-cable/): Cable internet runs over coaxial lines laid street by street, so it is strong inside its footprint and absent beyond it, while fixed wireless reaches a home by radio from a tower. Cable plans are priced with first-year p
- [Fixed wireless vs fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-fiber/): Fiber to the home is the benchmark technology, with the lowest delay and equal upload and download speeds, wherever a provider has run it to the street. Fixed wireless reaches homes that fiber does not, and Nevada's
- [Fixed wireless vs DSL](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-dsl/): DSL runs over copper phone lines, and its speed falls as the line gets longer from the telephone exchange, while fixed wireless depends on a clear path to a tower. AT&T now says it no longer offers DSL service, and s
- [Fixed wireless vs 5G home internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-5g-home-internet/): 5G home internet from T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T uses the same cell towers that carry phones, and the carriers word speeds as typical ranges or maximums. Tower-based fixed wireless like High Desert's uses radios
- [Fixed wireless vs a phone hotspot](https://hdiss.net/compare/fixed-wireless-vs-phone-hotspot/): A phone hotspot shares your phone's cellular data, and carriers set a monthly allowance for it, after which speeds drop; Verizon's Unlimited Hotspot add-on, for example, lowers speeds to up to 4 Mbps after 200
- [Geostationary vs low-earth-orbit satellite vs a tower hop](https://hdiss.net/compare/geo-vs-leo-vs-tower-latency/): The FCC measured median latencies of 594 to 612 ms for geostationary satellite broadband in its 2018 report, against 12 to 37 ms for terrestrial services, because the signal travels about 22,000 miles each way to an orbi

## Providers county by county: the dated records

### Washoe County

[Spectrum](https://hdiss.net/compare/spectrum/washoe-county/) [AT&T](https://hdiss.net/compare/att/washoe-county/) [Starlink](https://hdiss.net/compare/starlink/washoe-county/) [HughesNet](https://hdiss.net/compare/hughesnet/washoe-county/) [Viasat](https://hdiss.net/compare/viasat/washoe-county/) [T-Mobile Home Internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/t-mobile-home-internet/washoe-county/) [Verizon 5G Home](https://hdiss.net/compare/verizon-5g-home/washoe-county/) [Rango](https://hdiss.net/compare/rango/washoe-county/) [Sky Fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/sky-fiber/washoe-county/) [Net NV](https://hdiss.net/compare/net-nv/washoe-county/) [Avant Wireless](https://hdiss.net/compare/avant-wireless/washoe-county/)

### Lyon County

[Spectrum](https://hdiss.net/compare/spectrum/lyon-county/) [AT&T](https://hdiss.net/compare/att/lyon-county/) [Starlink](https://hdiss.net/compare/starlink/lyon-county/) [HughesNet](https://hdiss.net/compare/hughesnet/lyon-county/) [Viasat](https://hdiss.net/compare/viasat/lyon-county/) [T-Mobile Home Internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/t-mobile-home-internet/lyon-county/) [Verizon 5G Home](https://hdiss.net/compare/verizon-5g-home/lyon-county/) [Rango](https://hdiss.net/compare/rango/lyon-county/) [Sky Fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/sky-fiber/lyon-county/) [Net NV](https://hdiss.net/compare/net-nv/lyon-county/)

### Storey County

[Spectrum](https://hdiss.net/compare/spectrum/storey-county/) [AT&T](https://hdiss.net/compare/att/storey-county/) [Starlink](https://hdiss.net/compare/starlink/storey-county/) [HughesNet](https://hdiss.net/compare/hughesnet/storey-county/) [Viasat](https://hdiss.net/compare/viasat/storey-county/) [T-Mobile Home Internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/t-mobile-home-internet/storey-county/) [Rango](https://hdiss.net/compare/rango/storey-county/) [Sky Fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/sky-fiber/storey-county/) [Net NV](https://hdiss.net/compare/net-nv/storey-county/) [CC Communications](https://hdiss.net/compare/cc-communications/storey-county/)

### Churchill County

[Spectrum](https://hdiss.net/compare/spectrum/churchill-county/) [AT&T](https://hdiss.net/compare/att/churchill-county/) [Starlink](https://hdiss.net/compare/starlink/churchill-county/) [HughesNet](https://hdiss.net/compare/hughesnet/churchill-county/) [Viasat](https://hdiss.net/compare/viasat/churchill-county/) [T-Mobile Home Internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/t-mobile-home-internet/churchill-county/) [Rango](https://hdiss.net/compare/rango/churchill-county/) [Sky Fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/sky-fiber/churchill-county/) [Net NV](https://hdiss.net/compare/net-nv/churchill-county/) [CC Communications](https://hdiss.net/compare/cc-communications/churchill-county/)

### Carson City

[Spectrum](https://hdiss.net/compare/spectrum/carson-city/) [AT&T](https://hdiss.net/compare/att/carson-city/) [Starlink](https://hdiss.net/compare/starlink/carson-city/) [HughesNet](https://hdiss.net/compare/hughesnet/carson-city/) [Viasat](https://hdiss.net/compare/viasat/carson-city/) [T-Mobile Home Internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/t-mobile-home-internet/carson-city/) [Rango](https://hdiss.net/compare/rango/carson-city/) [Sky Fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/sky-fiber/carson-city/) [Net NV](https://hdiss.net/compare/net-nv/carson-city/)

### Douglas County

[Spectrum](https://hdiss.net/compare/spectrum/douglas-county/) [AT&T](https://hdiss.net/compare/att/douglas-county/) [Starlink](https://hdiss.net/compare/starlink/douglas-county/) [HughesNet](https://hdiss.net/compare/hughesnet/douglas-county/) [Viasat](https://hdiss.net/compare/viasat/douglas-county/) [T-Mobile Home Internet](https://hdiss.net/compare/t-mobile-home-internet/douglas-county/) [Verizon 5G Home](https://hdiss.net/compare/verizon-5g-home/douglas-county/) [Rango](https://hdiss.net/compare/rango/douglas-county/) [Sky Fiber](https://hdiss.net/compare/sky-fiber/douglas-county/) [Net NV](https://hdiss.net/compare/net-nv/douglas-county/)