Western
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Tell me how you got that please!! Millenicom told me they cant work with Verizon:confused3: Only Sprint?? I am on the jetpak through Verizon as I mentioned and its 5gs for $69:shocked:
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Tell me how you got that please!! Millenicom told me they cant work with Verizon:confused3: Only Sprint?? I am on the jetpak through Verizon as I mentioned and its 5gs for $69:shocked:
buckeyefarmer
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I was on hughesnet for many years, was OK, but I switched to excede when it came out with faster service and cheaper cost. hughes didn't have gen4 when I switched. someone mentioned they are the same, but they aren't. I have found Excede to be better than hughes, but I tend to go over my limit quickly. I also have 4g verizon mifi. Excede is faster for me.
streamin
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Are you saying that satellite( assuming Excede is satellite) is faster than verizon 4g? I have a verizon 4g mifi and it is plenty fast enough. I didn't know the satellite has improved that much.
CurlyDave
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We had satellite about 6 or 7 years ago. Better than dial-up, but worse than any other choice.
They we got DSL. We were too far from the nearest router, so that was only somewhat better. I didn't know to measure latency, I realized it was bad on satellite, but thought it was close on all land-based systems. This is wrong. It is a major thing on all connections. The highest speed we could get was supposed to be 2.5 MBPS, but we actually got more like 1.5.
The speed tests you find online will also give you a ping time, time to send a signal to some internet hub and get a reply back. The smaller the number the better. On DSL this was 70 to 140 milliseconds.
We found a local internet provider who uses small microwave dishes (maybe 12" diameter) to communicate with towers on nearby mountains. These are not the same as cell phone towers. We didn't even know this provider existed until we had lived here for a number of years and asked around. If you can see one of the towers from your roof you can connect to it.
For less money than the DSL, we now get a true 5 MBPS down and 2.5 MBPS up, which frequently exceed that spec which is good. The ping time is 20 milliseconds, which is much much better and makes the 5 MBPS seem faster.
To find if you have one of these providers in your area do a Google search in internet service providers and your zip code. Check every one that shows up, even if you think it is a blind alley. The one we got was near the end of a list that I had gone over briefly a few times, but overlooked each time because I just didn't think it was "real".
They we got DSL. We were too far from the nearest router, so that was only somewhat better. I didn't know to measure latency, I realized it was bad on satellite, but thought it was close on all land-based systems. This is wrong. It is a major thing on all connections. The highest speed we could get was supposed to be 2.5 MBPS, but we actually got more like 1.5.
The speed tests you find online will also give you a ping time, time to send a signal to some internet hub and get a reply back. The smaller the number the better. On DSL this was 70 to 140 milliseconds.
We found a local internet provider who uses small microwave dishes (maybe 12" diameter) to communicate with towers on nearby mountains. These are not the same as cell phone towers. We didn't even know this provider existed until we had lived here for a number of years and asked around. If you can see one of the towers from your roof you can connect to it.
For less money than the DSL, we now get a true 5 MBPS down and 2.5 MBPS up, which frequently exceed that spec which is good. The ping time is 20 milliseconds, which is much much better and makes the 5 MBPS seem faster.
To find if you have one of these providers in your area do a Google search in internet service providers and your zip code. Check every one that shows up, even if you think it is a blind alley. The one we got was near the end of a list that I had gone over briefly a few times, but overlooked each time because I just didn't think it was "real".
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We had Hughes for years, the only option. Customer service was always abysmal but fortunately we didn't need it much. Last year, service got worse and worse. We had an outage every afternoon and evening for a week (total outage, no connection). Customer Service (? NOT) had no answers. We cancelled and used AT&T MiFi for a while but it's pretty bad here (4G service is only mid range 3G in reality. AT&T lies about their 4G). This spring, we went with Wildblue (Exceed) and it's been good, or at least as good as you expect for satellite (latency is a given).
AT&T is the only coverage here and their backbone infrastructure sucks. You might get 3G/4G to the tower but then the tower connection to the Internet must be a dialup line sometimes
AT&T is the only coverage here and their backbone infrastructure sucks. You might get 3G/4G to the tower but then the tower connection to the Internet must be a dialup line sometimes
cqaigy2
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Verizon Home Fusion, pretty constant 3-4 Mb down, 1-2Mb up. 10GB cap , $10 per GB over cap. $69 per month 2 year contract. They install a "cantenna" on the house or pole w/cable connection back to their router. Router has 4 ethernet and wifi.
cletus99
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For anyone that is using a mifi or jetpack through Verizon may be wasting money if they have a smart phone. That is if everyone in the household has smart phones with hotspot. Especially now with the shared data plans. It cost, last time I checked, $20 a month plus your data plan for a mifi or jetpack, or even Home Fusion for that matter. Verizon doesn't charge for hotspot anymore so if you do the math you will come out ahead if you can use your hotspot on your phone. That's what we do. It wouldn't make any sense for us to have a seperate mifi, jetpack, or Home Fusion through Verizon when I'm getting the same 4G service through my smart phone turning on the hotspot and broadcasting a wifi signal that anyhting with wifi capability can connect to. I have a wireless adapter on our desktop that connects to it. Of course this wouldn't work for someone that only has one smart phone in the household when they're not home.
buckeyefarmer
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Just did a speed test. About the same speed right now: Verizon mifi 4.47 Mbps down / 1.37 Mbps up. Excede satellite 5.52 Mbps down / .39 Mbps up. I've been a lot happier with Excede than hughesnet. Hughes would always FAP you when you go over your daily limit. Excede doesn't slow you down till you reach your monthly quota (which I am over right now, so I think that is why it is only 5 Mbps down right now), but you can go online and purchase more. I go over a lot on my Verizon plan, every extra 1Gb over 5 Gb is $10.
thatguy
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here is the link to package we use.. Unless you dont have Verizon coverage I have no idea what they mean..
Plans | Millenicom
Sprint and Millenicom are on the outs (as mentioned above)..
thatguy
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YES.. with a new generation of satellites that went up a year or so ago, they get (in the best conditions) speeds comparable to 4g.. BUT you still have much longer lag than with other methods..
One of the satellite providers allows unlimited download from midnight to 5 or 6am.. Also with the new higher speeds there is no daily FAP limit from what i read
brian
