Satellite Internet

[KretZ]

The only experience I've had with satellite internet was in Afghanistan. Like Eddie said, every time it rained I was up on top of the building trying to get it dialed in again. We were up against a mountain and our geosynchronous orbit satellite lived just above the horizon so it was always a pain to keep the network up. But when it was up, it was d@mn fast! Plus I was always worried that I had somehow accidentally been sterilized by the transmitter. But we just found out we have a second one on the way, so looks like my swimmers survived ;-)

 

[KevT]

The only experience I've had with satellite internet was in Afghanistan. Like Eddie said, every time it rained I was up on top of the building trying to get it dialed in again. We were up against a mountain and our geosynchronous orbit satellite lived just above the horizon so it was always a pain to keep the network up. But when it was up, it was d@mn fast! Plus I was always worried that I had somehow accidentally been sterilized by the transmitter. But we just found out we have a second one on the way, so looks like my swimmers survived ;-)

Well let me say congradulations on the new family member!

 

[KevT]

My wife and I are both self employed and have to do a lot of email communication. We combined our cell phones, her office phone (also cell) with a mifi plan. Using AT&T (the only one that connects at the house) we get unlimited voice, and text and 30 gig of data which we seem to use about a third of. We can't stream movies or watch netflix, but no issues for us, who has time? LOL

We tried "Dish" and "Hugh's" and never again!!! Our TV is now with "Direct" and we were not even going there with them. Ahhhh, the joys of living rural.

 

[TripleR]

Nothing is available at our house as we're in the country surrounded on three sides by hills, a quarter of a mile away there are several providers. Several say their service will work until they check it, so we've used Hughes for about ten years since Charter moved their lines and it's not bad. I'll go with something else if it's ever available, but not a big deal as I never exceed my data and if it gets slow, I just do something else.

 

[paulharvey]

I've had Dishnet since September, and at first it was fast and pretty reliable. I have a 10 gig data limit. Most months I run out with a couple days left before it resets. This month, I ran out in like 10 days, and didn't download anything... I really am starting to wonder how they measure data use.

When it works, it's fast, but as months pass, it works less and less... they claim something like 150 kbps after data is used up; which is about the same as my Windstream DSL was; BUT after the first month or two, once data is used up, I can't even connect to anything using WIFI. I'm counting down the months till I can get rid of them. $71/month, but the next level is $20 more (15 gigs).

Windstream is available, but it was slow (anything over 100 kbps was good), unreliable (it was completely out for several weeks, and at least several days per month it didn't work), not cheap ($60/month), and their equipment/modem capped out every 6 months ($100 each time, unless you paid $10/month for there insurance plan).

I don't know much about this stuff, but is there anything you can do on customer side to reduce signal loss. Would there be better cable to run from house to Ped? It's just a phone drop now, something like a 4 pair copper. It's only 200 feet from my house to the ped

 

[Xfaxman]

Check for Fixed Wireless Internet providers in your area. https://www.google.com/webhp?source...ie=UTF-8#q=fixed+wireless+isp+for+Lebanon,+VA

We were on one before we moved here and had to go with Hughes Net.

Pro Value is coming out today to see if we can get signal from a tower southeast of here.

Professional Value Internet Services, Inc. - ProValue.net

 

[paulharvey]

Is there a good simple website that explains what all these options are. Dsl, cable internet, T1, ect. It's pretty much all foreign to me.

 

[kcflhrc]

I currently have Excede Satellite Internet with a 10gb limit monthly. Suppose to be 12mb download speeds but the delay is horrible and I run out of data almost every month. I'm in the process of changing over to Pixius that is one of those line of site providers that uses cell towers to put their antennas on. My satellite is $50 per month and Pixius will be $80 but there is no data limit on the Pixius. Should be installed in a week or 2. Hopefully it's good.

 

[Country Geek]

I've had Dishnet since September, and at first it was fast and pretty reliable. I have a 10 gig data limit. Most months I run out with a couple days left before it resets. This month, I ran out in like 10 days, and didn't download anything... I really am starting to wonder how they measure data use.

Well you didn't download anything that you know of. But all kinds of things can be downloading in the background. Most software assumes if you are on wifi you have unlimited data so are programmed to do background downloads then. The most common example is Windows updates. If you have smart phones, they also download updates when on wifi. Those updates can be large. If you use a cloud service like Dropbox, they synch while on wifi. Etc.

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

Exede satellite here and its either this or dial up. Satellite internet is good for me, never have exceeded 10gigs a month, fairly fast, does go out in heavy rain but can live with that. Free downloads from midnight to 5 am. All in all its good for us, especially when dial up is the only other option.