Satellite Internet

[luvmexfood]

Does anyone have any experience with satellite internet? Only thing available here is dial-up and on my old XP desktop many webpages will not load anymore. I suppose upgrades are needed but can't download them.

Have a laptop running Windows 8.1 and if I try and connect it through the dial-up modem nothing will download. Everything times out. Have tried both IE and Chrome browsers.

Can't even access Yahoo mail anymore. I was told today by an installer for Dishnetwork that Dish contracts with both Hughes and Exede and just resells their service and you are better to deal straight with the companies.

 

[deerseeker001]

I had Hughes net for 8 years was very good but you have download limits,I had Gen4 which was there latest satellite. It worked for me till something better came along.

 

[phiferpharm]

I had Excede until we finally got DSL. It was better than dial-up, but never got through the month without exceeding 10gb of data. If you have to do big downloads, do it after midnight.

 

[nybirdman]

Have you checked with Verizon Wireless?They seem to have about the best coverage.Satellite would be the very last option for me.

 

[rekees4300]

Does anyone have any experience with satellite internet?

5 years ago I had Hughesnet for 2 years. The worse company I have ever dealt with. If you go with Hughesnet be prepared for lots of frustration. But, nevertheless, they would still be better than dial-up.

 

[bamboozled]

Verizon Wireless - Explore - LTE Internet (Installed)

 

[EddieWalker]

I had Hughesnet for several years and I cannot say a single good thing about them. Every time it rained, it quit working. Every time the clouds came out, it quit working. If there was too much dew in the morning, it wouldn't work. Customer service has four levels. Three are in India, four is in Florida. It's almost impossible to get past level 3, but I did on several occasions. Level 1 asks about the weather. If you admit it's cloudy out or raining, they wont talk to you anymore. You have to tell them the sky is clear in order to get to level 2. They they will have you perform a few tests that never work and then on to level three where they agree to send out a tech to fix it. I've had everything replaced several times, from the cables, to the connections on the cables, to several routers and several dishes, transmitters and receivers. Everything is remanufactured, and even if you are the first stop for the tech and he has 4 boxes of transmitters, modems and receivers, there is no guarantee that any of them will work. I know this first hand!!!

Best thing I ever did was to switch to Verizon internet. Then I made a mistake and went to their MiFi wifi, which is a data ***** that never stops eating up data. But that's another topic.

Eddie

 

[DuckSlayer1017]

My wife runs an internet based business out of our house that is out in the sticks. We used Verizon for a few years but now that my daughters are older they are online a lot and we were always going over our 30gb limit. We ended up going with a T1 line that uses the copper phone line but doesn't have the distance limitations like DSL. It's not cheap but neither is Verizon when the data limit is high. The speeds with the T1 are about like DSL.

 

[rekees4300]

Only thing available here is dial-up

Are you sure you aren't covered by Verizon 4G LTE? When I type Lebanon, VA into their coverage map it looks like the town is covered.

Coverage Locator

 

[grsthegreat]

my satellite hughesnet was miserable. They NEVER met their promised download and upload speeds. Once i was able to switch to a microwave internet system, ive been pleased as punch. i still have a small 12" antenna, but its pointed 10 miles to the top of a mountain instead of 22,000 miles into space.

the MAJOR problem with satellite internet is the HUGE ping times. most are so long that your bumped out of sites. This is due to the length of time it takes for signal to reach satellite and return to earth.