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Anyone familiar with the internet by satellite?

Anyone here on satellite internet? Hughes or Wildblue? WHY?

  • I'm in the sticks and satellite seems to be the best I can do. As usual, the offers are conflicting and confusing. I'd appreciate input who has made the choice and is pleased with the choice they have made. Then, on top of satellite, there's the wireless offers from the phone companies. I use US Cellular for phone, and I'm perfectly pleased with that.

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    I'm on the Hughesnet 2Watt commercial system, and so far the only thing that seems to stop it is having snow on the dish, or weather so bad I have bigger concerns than checking askville. it costs $80.00 per month and has a download limit that is about the size of a netflix movie. they recommend not trying to play games online, due to the signal latency (it's a long ways to the satellite and back, even at the speed of light) but I have played WOW from time to time, and it's kind of wonky but it works. I do have to deal with having a 36" dish, though - and they are picky about how they mount it.

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I'm trying to compare and contrast Hughes and Wildblue. They're worse at making apples into flower pots and oranges into basketballs than the TV services. They BOTH do everything they can to hide the FAP threshold.

ibstubro

FAP threshold?

TheLightWorks

The max they'll let you download. Base Wildblue is 7500 mb per month, Hughes 200 mb per day. Here's the best info I've found: http://voices.yahoo.com/comparison-satellite-internet-providers-hughesnet-6414776.html

ibstubro

my plan allowance is 475MB per day. if I exceed that I can pay a fee to reset it. I really only get in trouble if I watch a lot of video or my niece goes crazy downloading music.

TheLightWorks

(if I exceed it they restrict the download rate, rather than cutting me off completely)

TheLightWorks

the advantage of satellite over cellular is that I am completely self contained - local outages only affect me in that I have to run my generator to power the system - and I have to run the generator to power my network, anyway. if we have power outages, the cellular systems can be affected.

TheLightWorks

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