We've got it at our house. It's call WildBlue, and is offered through South Central power company. We've got the fastest package that they offer, 1.5mbps. I personally think it's pretty damn fast. There is nothing other than dial-up available where I'm at, so, this was the only option, and for that I can't complain too much. I regularly get 850-9XX kbps when testing on Speakeasy.net with IIRC, mid 100's upload speed.
Draw backs.
1. Weather. If it's raining hard, you might as well forget it. For this reason, we still keep our dial-up as a backup.
2. It does occaisionally cut out for now apparent reason. This is annoying since I can't explain why it does it.
3. It's still not the fastest thing out there, but it's waaaaaaaaaaay better than the dialup I've been using for the past 10 years. (not joking about the 10 years)
4. The contract said that they limit you to 22GB of info/30 day rotating cycle. I personally think this is B.S. Now that I've got some high speed, I've been downloading BitTorrents, movies, music and porn like it's my job. Supposedly when you hit your quota for the 30 days, they knock you down to dial-up speed until you slow it down a bit. We've probably only had the service for a month now, or close to it, and they haven't shut me down yet. I've got to be getting close to the limit though. I'm guessing they do this though to control the strain on their system. I've heard that they are already swampped on the network they've got out here.
Can't really think of anything else. Hope this helps.
p.s. HughesNet offers satellite service now as well. The way I understand it, is that they used to be DirectWay.