Adam Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 anyone know anything about it, like who provides the service. Or anything to the such, looking to get a place online that is way out in the boondocks. (yes farther than Bainbridge) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRocket1647545505 Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Jones Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 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. 5. Latency, all vsat systems , by design have exceptionally high latency. IE: the round trip ping to say yahoo is typically 1500ms. This doesn't affect alot of things besides latency sensitive apps/ telnet/gaming/ect. We deploy high speed business class vsat's where I work and they soo far have been incredibely reliable in most areas (minus southern florida ect.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTHER91 Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 verizon has it also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRocket1647545505 Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 5. Latency Forgot that one. That one's annoying as well. Good thing I'm not really into online gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man of Steele Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 You should look into Wimax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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