Posted by jdemaris on December 29, 2007 at 08:34:29 from (67.142.130.22):
In Reply to: satellite Internet posted by rodgernbama on December 28, 2007 at 17:18:33:
We can't get cable or DSL here (in this part of New York). Dial up is on a 50 year old underground phone lines that are on their last legs. So, we changed over to Satellite two months ago. We've got Hughes.net but as far as I can tell, they are all the same, regardless of brand name. Wild Blue et. al. use the same equipment and same satellites.
Works better than dial-up - but not as reliable for working all the time, and not much faster when transmitting (uplink). Much faster on download. We also found that we cannot send large files - they crap out and fail I tried several times to send 15MB attachements by email, and they failed every time. To be fair though, that's big - and I went down town and used someone's RoadRunner cable broadband, and it also failed to send a 15MB file.
When we bought this system - we purchased the equipment outright and paid $70 a month for access. Our plan was - to dump the dial-up and save some bucks on the montly fee and the call-waiting fee we needed from the phone company. Now, after finding many times the satellite does not work - we're keeping the dial-up for backup. We have satellite TV and that has always worked fine. Tends to crap out just before a heavy rain or snow storm - but then comes back pretty quick. This satellite internet thing tends to stop working at unpredicitable times - often only for minute or so - but it's gets aggravating at times. I've had to switch over to dial-up several time to answer an email for forum post.
One warning - I found out the hard way. Just after getting this thing going - I was anxious to download some large files I'd been wanting including some CAV injection pump data files. Well, I spend one morning downloading - and the system crapped out and would not work for 24 hours. After callling tech support - and getting some guy in India - found out there's a use limit - set at 250 MB per day. Once you exceed that, you get shut down. Yeah - that's a lot and now I plan. But, if you don't know? I was told that unlimitted use is allowed in the middle of the night - like 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. I don't need anything that bad.
My wife and I aren't sure yet - if it's worth the expense. We might cancel it, we'll see. The only big plus - is being able to download large files which we can't do with dial-up. A file that takes an hour to download with dial-up, takes only five minutes with the satellite deal. With uplinking - a file that takes 30 seconds to send with dialup sends in 10-20 seconds with the satellite (when it's working). You can buy a stronger transmitter and send a little faster, but that raises the monthly fee. $70 per month is enough.
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