Satellite broadband?

[bpitt]

Anyone here use Hughs or some other satellite broadband service? Dial-up sucks, it's all I can get at my house. During the day I use various broadband services at the different locations that I at working, but in the evening, I'm at home and it SUCKS!

[carsalesguy]

i remember using dishway or whatever around 99- pretty impressive.

you still dialed in, but your download was thru the satelite. i'm sure now you can upload and download thru the satelite

[amanda]

Bpitt, I have DWay at work. It's okay, but let a dark cloud show up and you are screwed. I still have dial-up connection at work "just in case" weather shows that interferes. It's not like home satelite that is a little for forgiving.

[bpitt]

Okay, thanks.

[bpitt]

The cheapest T1 I've found was like $400, a little much for a broadband connection. I wonder if I could get a fractional T out here?

[bpitt]

Or I could get a regular T1, and resell the service to neighbors?

[aaron]

I have a friend that has DirectDish from DirectTV and they said it sucked.

[eyescene]

I almost got Hughs last year but after reading about the FAP. I said naaaa. Anyway ATT and Wild Blue has teamed up. here is WB's Uncensored forum. ask ???'s about the FAP. Hughs Uncensored forum is not free to unpaid public so I just went to the WB one and chatted with them.

http://www.wildblue.cc/wbforums/index.php

He's a review on HughesNet.
http://www.dslreports.com/reviews/1678

[TheKing]

heres a thought...

move out of the woods

at any rate...ive never actually had the satellite internet but i have had decent lengthy experiences on it...

its not terrible...dont expect to play games...your bandwidth is alright but your latency sucks ass

also..theres this weird bandwidth cap you get so i wouldnt recommend doing a lot of bittorrent activity on it...

they pretty much only let you have a gig or two a day then they cut you off...plus they have monthly bandwidth caps too...

i did some research on it a few years ago and seem to remember that satellite only has some unreasonably low bandwidth cap that is shared amongst all its customers...so at the end of the day they only want you surfing sites with this

[Guru]

The scoop: I have seen DirectWay satellite internet and telephone in a few locations. I also know people that have used it at home. After taking the reins myself to check out the speed I have to honestly say that my dial-up at home was just as fast. Mind you I have a pretty good dial-up, the folks out here keep it up and I stay on the phone helping keep them up.
I had one buddy in Southern Louisiana that was sold on satellite but this was a guy, one of those folks, that could also write a virus for you if you were unpleased with someone. He told me you are going to get it hooked up, make sure they are going through all their steps and you also watch the outputs, but give me a call afterwards and we can make it sizzle.
My cost for installation at this time is $600 for the equipment, another $56 a month for the service and this is just for internet. I figured if it would be decent at all I could let my ISP go ($14.95) and then let my second phone line for the computer go ($25) and I would be adding $16 to what I have now. If the places I got to check out would have worked out, and all of them were businesses so you know they would have gotten the goods if anyone would have, I would have jumped on it but it just wasn't so.
I later found out from some of our IT guys that there are two kinds of satellite hook-ups, the entry version that costs what I mentioned above and then if you really want it to work great you spend a LOT more money for the other version. Suggested speeds you have heard on the advertisements, 115 bps or so.
If the phone company gets your system right, and the small folks tell you to call if it slips just a bit, then you can do a decent 48-49.2. It isn't fast enough to appreciate bigjohn on YouTube but for everyday use it is ok.
I have some relatives that have many many years with the phone company and have talked to some other folks I know within the ranks and all of them tell me that the goal of AT&T is to have everyone on DSL by the end of the year, if you can hold out. I'm holding out.
A buddy of mine in Purvis and I mean he lives in the back woods, gets the Light version of DSL. He said it works as good as our connection at work, and that is pretty decent. Over the course of a normal download the speeds in the country will most of the time drop to 3.5 bps, of course they start out faster but in downloads no matter what you have or where you are they will start out fast and drop significantly.
Our work connection if you compare it to the DSL light that is being offered through Bell South and consequently AT&T will start about 80 bps and drop to a continuous 35, not too shabby. Hughes has some out, there are also others, but the consistent reports I hear are that yeah, you may get a little speed if they have all the cogs in place but I would not waste my money on it.
I'm waiting to see what will happen with the DSL.

[eyescene]

AMEN! Guru! I wanted to rep you up but I don't have anymore to give.

[Guru]

Sorry King, that may have been before my time. But I do note the need and should have structured it so. Thanks for reminding me. Personally I wouldn't consider a Neg-Rep or Groan to be given for something that elementary; more than likely a nudge would do but you have been here longer than me and should know much better than I.

[Guru]

AMEN! Guru! I wanted to rep you up but I don't have anymore to give.

* That's allright BaeBae, save it for another day. Your appreciation is more than enough.

[bpitt]

That's cool, and NO, I ain't moving outta da woods!! I've kinda caught wind that I would have DSL within 3 months, but I've been told that before. Heck, supposively they're looking at providing broadband over power lines one day, so that may be an option. I'll probably just wait and see if Bellsouth/AT&T get's it here this year.

[Guru]

My cousin told me that all those new little smaller white boxes we are seeing put up everywhere houses all we will need to have the DSL conversion. He also says that it is just a matter of them being turned on.
Out here where I live there is one guy that lives farther out in the country than some of us and he has DSL. Guess what? He works for the phone company and we still don't have it because our boxes have not been turned on. How bout THAT? :D

[eyescene]

I ain't moving outta da woods!! either just to get DSL.

[mac]

My parents live in an area where cable and dsl have never become available, and my dad got a satellite internet connection about a year ago. It's fast. Very fast. I think it's pretty expensive, and while it's more reliable than he expected it to be, it can still be flaky in bad weather.

[Guru]

Thank you MacBaby! Let's meet over at Books-a-Million one night, drink some weird coffee with you and your husband you can tell me about this satellite hook-up. The knowledge would be great, I have people from work and home asking me about it all the time.

[bpitt]

Well, I've got a bellsouth guy living across the road from me and one a couple of miles away, and neither have dsl, trust me, they've tried. Camp Shelby is fed by fiber, shame I can't 'tap' into it.

[Guru]

I've worked with the Fiber-Optics before in some offshore installations. Very good but very fragile. I have often wondered how it would work with our Mississippi phone system.

[bpitt]

It works, trust me, they've got miles of it buried around here. If you call the coast, you talkin' over fiber.

[eyescene]

fotno what is latency?

[TheKing]

well i was going to answer this for him with a link but since i see you put his name in bold...i assume you really really want him to answer it and nobody else

so ill just put this link a t the bottom of this post and stare at it and wonder what to do with it

http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci212456,00.html

[eyescene]

sir King you are so funny! Anyone can answer but since he posted about it I was directing my question to him. And thanks for the link!!! ;)

[OLDLADY]

bpitt, My office is by the North Gate to Camp Shelby and we never could get dsl...Back in Oct 06, we changed to Megagate and had a T1 put in...lots faster now. And BellSouth had to run the lines..... I too live in Dixie and my personal Megagate dial-up was all that is offered with the promise of dsl by the end of Summer. I disconnected after 24 hours when it took 6 minutes to download one page.

[Sister Golden Hair]

I am having Wild blue installed tonight- we'll see how it works!

What's with the paragraghs?

[ComputerDude]

I asked BellSouth how long until DSL came to my neck of the woods. I was told in about a year or two.
That was almost five years ago. Still no DSL. :(
My wife and I do eBay business and ended up signing up for WildBlue last summer.
We bought the top package because we wanted the fastest speed. That was eighty dollars a month and the speed was not too bad once you got past the latency. I'm a gamer but I don't online game so it didn't really bother me. It's not DSL but it's far better then dialup.
True if it's rainy outside you won't be getting on but really, if the weather is getting bad you shouldn't be on your computer anyway. In fact you should shut them down and unplug them from the wall. ESPECIALLY if you're a dialup user.
Anyway, the Fair Access Policy stuff is CRAP. I hate it. They have three different "caps", one for each package. The top package you get 12Gbs of bandwidth which is really pretty decent. If you're just doing basic browsing, updating your systems and doing the occasional download, it's fine. We down graded last month and immediately found ourselves almost at the max for the package we downgraded too. (Only 7.5Gbs)
So, in the end WildBlue isn't terrible. If you got reliable word that DSL is coming I'd hold out because if you sign for something like WildBlue, you have to sign a contract that will lock you into their service for a year and a half.