Anyone using Wild Blue Satellite internet?  Just looking for opinions on it.?
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I haven't used it but it is by far the cheapest satellite internet that I have found.
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No kidding!  My family does, ever since Feb 2006, and it was one of our best choices.  We changed from access995...they were down so often.
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First, you should call your phone and cable company and ask them what it would take to get the service out to you; do you have neighbors that would like the service too?  If you get enough people asking, you can get them to roll out a line into your area, that is after all the way the make their money.  You do not sound like the local pofok, so you might consider meeting them half way, your dig a trench and run a fiber line from and center point of activity to a location that they have a fiber hut set up and then they set up a new fiber hut at point you started from.  They can set up your phone and DSL service from there and it probably will be better than it is now.  You could also inquire about FTTN fiber to the node.  That is AT&T’s newest product and if you can convince them to drop a line in your area you are in like flint.  They are going to be hitting that hard and heavy and the price is going to be cheap, Phone, TV and DSL service for about $80 and you will not get a better connection or quality of service anywhere, it is going to be sharp.\n\nIf the answer is no to all of that, Satellite is fine there will be a ten second lag between send and receive, but when you do start receiving it will be steady, not like the lines going a crossed the monitor or a slide show instead of a vid, like in the 90’s, it is a very good service and if all else fails, I highly recommend it.  It will be better than dial up by a long shot, that I assure you.\n\nA little side note about the meeting them halfway part, do not discount the good old boys if you happen to have money, but the people around you do not.  They may still want the service and whereas they may not be able to pay some one to run in the line for them, odds are they will just do it themselves if it means getting something they want.\n\n\nHope that helps,\n\nJohn B.
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It would be helpful if you posted some basics about your internet connection.  56k users will be doomed to such happenings, as sometimes "noise" over the connection will cause packet losses.  Also, peak internet use times will cause those types of problems.
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it sucks, don't get it.  you will need broadband, if you want to be able to stream the channels quickly.  it doesn't have any normal channels though, only odd-ball channels from around the world.
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Yes, its good.  We use it, and we don't have any problems.  We used to have cable (comcast), but they kept charging more and more, and kept giving us less and less (our service kept cutting out, and when we would call they would tell us squirrels chewed through their lines.  Yes, squirrels were always to blame.)
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I have used Netgear and Linksys in the past. I used Netgear on my wired network. It was okay, but I found everytime I have a thunder storm it would knock out my cable connection. So I would have to reset the network. After I discovered this was what was happening and new how to fix it, it was okay but was a hassel sometimes. \n\nI have sinced went to a wireless network. I originally had a Netgear because I'd used it in the past and thought it would work okay. However, no matter how much or tried, how long I worked on it, or who I had work on it, I could not get it to connect to the internet wirelessly. I could if I was connected to it with wires, but not wirelessly.\n\nI decided to return it and go with a Linksys. I have been very happy with it. I have had no problems with it (knock, knock, knock) It works with a really strong signal and it doesn't disconnect. I am able to get a strong signal throughout my house, even on the very opposite end. So it works great. \n\nI have a router with speed booster. I'm not sure how much of a difference in speed it is, I am satisfied. But I also have a Dell Axim PDA which I am unable to use on my wireless network. The only way I can use this is if I connect it to the dock through one of my wired PC's. Dell support says it is because the axim does not support speed booster. Just a word of caution. \n\nSo I vote Linksys!
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Cable, Wireless if there's a company in your area, or satellite Dish.  \n\nDirecway is the most popular right now, it's not part of Directv, but it's owned by the same company.  It uses a larger dish than the TV and has a microwave transmitter so it needs to be out of reach of people.  Not dangerous but it has the potential to be.  It uses an adapter (modem) that connects to your computer via ethernet cable so you need an ethernet card, and windows 98 or above supports it.  There is no longer any software involved so nothing is done to your computer except maybe get rid of old software from DSL or cable that sometimes won't allow it, and disabling the firewall for  the computer to pick it up.\n\nThere's also a company called "wild blue".  They are new but seem to have a very good product.  Roughly the same idea as direcway.\n\nDirecway can be roof mounted, wall mounted only if the dish can be up high enough and facing the satellite in space (there are several), and pole mounted by a professional installer only due to the safety concerns.
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I used it for awhile, but all I saw was additional pages being cached' for faster access. I also ran into a couple of issues when going to Virtual Privacy Networked (VPN) sites, and occasionally my anti virus over reacted to some web pages and froze me out (as I had it set). Not long after I installed it and really haven't had any problems since.\nI think if you're using a dial-up modem then you'll probably see more dramatic results. If you're running DSL/CABLE/ or T- connection then you probably won't see as much improvement. Oh yeah, and the little accelerator clock that says you've saved??,minutes is pretty useless unless you have to clock you Internet time. (IMHO)
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I live in a rural area as well, no cable or dsl ever coming this way, so I invested in high speed satellite internet.\nDirectway satellite provides this service, contact them to get you in touch with an installer.\n\nIt'a about $100.00 a month for 15 months, and then it drops down to $60.00 or so. I forget how much the Installation fee was, I have had satellite for 1 1/2 years now. It's been pretty good as far as reception, just like the tv, when it's HEAVILY snowing or raining reception goes out (sometimes) until it clears up,and that is not very often, can count on one hand, but other than that, wonderful! You can download music, watch clips, anything that dsl does, satellite does, maybe it takes a couple of seconds longer to upload the info but it's the only choice I had!I am very happy with my choice.
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I had Tata Indicom, WLL with theinternet connection. It became horrible about 8mths back, and costed a lot every month.\n\nI returned it and got a BSNL with broadband. Good connection, download & low bills. Streets ahead of Tata indicom. Service is as good a Tata indicom.\n\nPS : BSNL is yet to charge me for the monthly rental of broadband!! Its a worry, when they will wake up and on the pathetic billing service. A delight if this is for true and they dont charge me at all!!
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LOL!!!\n\n1Gb/s broadband!!!\n\nYou are out of your mind, that does not exist for home usage, maybe for IBM offices...\n\nWhat country are you in? That determines what companys you want to look at!\n\nI think you meant 1mb/s... correct me if i am wrong.\n\n\nEDIT:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\n\nPlease watch out for this:\n\nUNLIMITED DOWNLOAD, in the small print - they usualy put "Subject to Fair usage Policy" Therfore it is not unlimited and you can be kicked off the service or limited to say 15kbps upload and 30kbps download if u try to use a lot of bandwidth.\n\nI download a fair bit but the BT package with 40gb is more than enough (i live in the uk).
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I use SBC Yahoo! DSL. I love it. It's fast and I've never had any problems. For us, it's only about $20-$25 a month.
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I am in the beginning stage of this battle as well.  Four months ago, I upgraded from basic to pro, only to find that my download speed has not increased.  Upload has increased approximately 15-20% to 410Kbps.  I've contacted AT&T Yahoo, only to be given the script trouble-shooting answers such as, "Clear Cookies, Delete Files and History.  Allow all Cookies, turn off Internet Security" and turn 360 degrees, reboot your machine, reload OS, and chant a Christmas Jingle.  I have not quite gotten the rewire the house telephone lines or rework the plumbing request, but I'm sure that'll be the next one.  They've refutted my theory that it could possibly be the three-year old SpeedStream 5360 DSL router that's causing the bottle-neck, since 3.0Gbps wasn't even a techie's wet-dream when the router was designed....  Sorry that I don't have an answer for ya' - just wanted to let you know that you're not alone on this one.
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I live not far from you. I have tried dsl with Verizon and found them quite lacking on dependability.\n\nI have elected the roadrunner option with my cable company Bright house. I chose cable because I can have as many TV’s hooked up as I want in the house and out and don’t pay the additional $5 unit as with Satellite.\n\nThe cable modem for internet is 10X faster than the dsl system was and at the same cost. Further, I signed up for Vonage internet telephone and have unlimited calling anywhere for only $24/ month. \n\nWhat it comes down to is better service, faster service, unlimited phone, and all for about $30 savings per month from Verizon Phone and dsl service.\n\nIf you have an interest, drop me an email: theadultvideoguy@yahoo.com\nIf you sign up for vonage, and reference me, you get discount rates!\n\nBTW, I am not a porn person! Just distracting all the junk emailers out there!
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Used them for a large period about 2 years ago.\n\nThe machine got hacked and racked up some serious bandwith which they charged us a fortune for (with little help).\n\nOn the plus side the technical support is usually pretty responsive and is all ticket based so at least things can be followed up.\n\nOh and they have starwars playing on their tech support queue line which you'll get very used to.\n\nDepends what sort of hosting your after really, if your going to pay out a reasonable amount for a service that you need to be reliable for multiple or a big site then fasthost would seem a decent choice.\n\nOther than that if your only operating something small, give bluguy a go, ive found them very very cheap and very responsive, though i only have the one site on there.
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This Wireless piece of...well... ok Print Server has always had issues.\n\nJust a thought on wireless in general, but I'm kind of dissapointed, that even though wireless tech has been around for years it is still dreadfully unreliable in critical applications such as print serving, or even network gaming. \n\nI can have my laptop, or desktop w/ wireless 2 feet from my router w/ a clear line of sight, and it will still have issues, and thats with upto date, decent 802.11G hardware. :( \n\nI'm not saying its worthless by any means, It does work just fine for spuratic network tasks (Internet surfing/email) but for any app where a releatively constant stream of data needs to be sent it seems to drop the ball alot still. I think that consumer level wi-fi vendors should focus on reliability a bit more.