The Soviet dog that went into space?Originally Posted by TheInternet
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??? how is their customer service? heard bad things.
what kind of speeds are you getting?
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If you can get the line-of-sight internet, it can be worth it. My parents have it and it works great, with one caveat. Mount the dish/antenna to something very solid. It always went out at my parents' house until my dad finally put in a post set in concrete, and since then they almost never have an internet outage.
Also, if you get it set up in the fall/winter, remember the summer foliage that might block the view, that was another one of their initial problems.
I'm sure it's really dependent on the company, and I don't think you'd be using it for online gaming or anything, but it definitely beats dial up and my parents can chat/Skype/Netflix on it.
The only option I have, Wildblue. All my neighbors use line of site; they have million dollar views. I'm tucked in the trees. Unless I want to erect a tower, satellite is my only option. I pay for the faster service, $80 for 1.5mbps. Looking forward to the new satellite coming on line in Oct., thanks to my tax dollars. I do have a lot of short outages, but it's my only option. Never needed to much customer service, can't comment.
I live in an area that does not have cable or dsl. I ended up having to go with HughesNet as there was no other option. I would strangle to get DSL so suck it up...
Skybeam is high-frequency radio from a broadcast tower to an antenna on your home. It is highly line-of-sight dependent...even more than satellite.
It must've improved since I had WisperTel several years ago.
Then again, most people have reception from more than one tower. I could only get line-of-sight to the Mt Bailey tower and it was constantly having an issue of one sort or another. My service was down a lot.
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I had satellite for a couple years when I was living/working at a camp in a valley by Mt. Evans. Slow, slower with bad weather (snow and rain bad, not cold and cloudy bad), but it works. Given a choice I wouldn't want it again but its better than nothing.
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