Raining today, can't hay I guess, was going to finally start, but it's very welcome. Sitting in listening to the rain and thunder, nice change from all the years of drought.
Satellite is the last resort, next to dialup (which is not offered here anymore to new customers, barely worked anyway this far out on the lines, static, always slow and disconnecting). NNTC is in neighboring villages, I'm 15-30 miles from others not servicing here. They did run a bunch of fiber, people 15-20 miles from town have it straight to the house, "cable" tv too. Pretty impressive when houses average more than a mile apart, less than 3 people a square mile average.
If that last satellite upgrade with either Hughesnet or Viasat would have covered us with the new satellite, it would be better. The new one will cover here for sure, but it's covering a very large area, I expect no miracles. They say they will increase caps. With the last upgrade, they actually lowered the daytime caps after promising "good" plans. After many complaints and months, they increased the cheap package only back to what it was in the daytime, then added in the download zones, so that helped, but not with congestion. Some areas have "unlimited" (150GB soft cap), but over $100 per month. Verizon wireless performs just as well as DSL in a good signal area, no congestion most places (maybe by bigger towns though). But, caps on every option make what people call "normal" Internet impossible, things like streaming youtube, Netflix, etc. for much anyway. People that use Windows, especially 10, some updates are blowing through nearly 1/3 of the monthly daytime cap. Viaero is about the only difference if available, their caps were better, new plans are better than other options though. They had a very bad reputation because service barely worked, signal still doesn't compare to Verizon, but since the upgrade in this area a couple years ago, the Internet works. http://www.viaero.com/shop/plans/home-phone-internet
It's annoying to have to browse with pictures disabled as a person approaches a cap, videos stopped/blocked, etc. Getting harder to do these days. Can't even plug in DIsh/Directv safely with all the automatic downloading (unless they are connected to a router set on a timer to only turn on during the free zone). It was such a change to get what I have now, and most people don't even think about it.
I had Wildblue for about 8 years when I actually figure it up, worked "great" at the beginning, end was terrible. I paid for 0.5 meg service, $50 per month (no lease, they allowed buying their equipment back then). They transitioned to Exede needing the new equipment. Browsing, couldn't tell the difference from Wildblue here, several neighbors got it while it was available to subscribers. I didn't transition to Exede. I went to Millenicom, $70 per month for 20GB on Verizon 3g, at the end Verizon upgraded to 4G, 20-30 meg download speed 10 miles from the tower, it was great. Millenicom was kind of "shady", not doing business right, they were forced to stop selling Internet. Verizon offered $90 for current customers on that plan, same time Viaero upgraded, so I switched. Slower downloads, but page browsing is the same, and the cap is much more livable.
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