WildBlue was also a PIA to deal with for the most part, at least here. We
lived 150 miles east of where we are now (Houston area) and are now I San
Antonio. Both places was a lot of hassles to deal with.
Mike, k5wmg
Pipe Creek, Texas
Green cars, slow boats, big dogs, old trucks, little radios, and summers off
to write
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Adam Shirley WJ4X <wj4x@amsat.org> wrote:
> The key to correcting your Wildblue in the rain is to install a solo cup
> to the TRIA (feedhorn) to make a sort of rain shield. The angle the TRIA
> takes seems to collect water. The other trick is to coat the dish with
> cooking spray to help the water run off.
>
> I had HughesNet first, then ditched it for Wildblue which supposedly was
> better. I was disappointed.
>
> I actually liked Hughes with a little better gear which was an Andrew 1
> meter dish and the 2 watt transmit. It was 10x better, but talking the
> tech into using my radio equipment was quite complicated. The nice thing
> is that now that they do most commercial installs with this stuff it's
> most likely easier to acquire it.
>
> Wildblue had extreme problems with rain fade, latency, and equipment
> failure.
>
> Hughes was a customer service nightmare. If you get Hughes, remove that
> plastic cover over the feedhorn ASAP, they collect water.
>
> Pick your poison.
>
> I was glad to ditch my Wildblue for DSL.
>
> 73 and good luck!
>
> -Adam
> WJ4X
>
>
>
> On 8/26/2010 4:03 PM, Michael Goins wrote:
> > I've had Wild Blue two different places and the experience was at best
> > mediocre.
> >
> > Speed was always an issue regardless of what was promised and even light
> > rain/dew/fog seriously affected my ability to access the Internet as did
> > trees and trying to gain an unobstructed view of their satellite
> locations.
> > I teach college and write professionally so I need access to the Internet
> > often for research or to stay in contact with students, and it simply
> wasn't
> > reliable enough all the time for us here.
> >
> > We are now with a small provider and I have a direct antenna to their
> > location from the hilltop here.
> >
> > Mike, k5wmg
> > Pipe Creek, Texas
> > Green cars, slow boats, big dogs, old trucks, little radios, and summers
> off
> > to write
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Larry WA9VRH <wa9vrh@dishmail.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Dan and Bill,
> >>
> >> I have WildBlue and love it. I was able to deal with VPN when I was
> working
> >> for Oce and needed it
> >> to access our network. Never worried about the speed as it was light
> years
> >> ahead of Verizon dial up
> >> which on a good day was 24.6!
> >>
> >> I have used it with Echolink and it works fine. Very few outtages in 5
> plus
> >> years.... Hope it doesn't go South now!
> >>
> >> 73 Larry WA9VRH
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bill Gillenwater" <gillie@pa.net>
> >> To: "Dan Bookwalter" <N8DCJ@YAHOO.COM>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:18 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet
> >>
> >>
> >>> I used a DirecTV/DirecWAY internet satellite for several years. It
> works
> >>> fine. It was almost DSL speed but not cable modem speed. This was 4
> years
> >>> ago, so higher speeds may be available. Beats the heck out of the old
> >>> telephone modem hookup. I have even seen some motor homes with the
> >>> DirectTV
> >>> satellite service and they are very happy with it. As long as you
> don't
> >>> have to go through any VPN type networks (some business networks have
> >>> multiple firewall gadgets) it will work fine. I was happy. Lived in the
> >>> woods and on top of a mountain with not hope of cable or DSL.
> >>> 73 Bill K3SV
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Dan Bookwalter" <n8dcj@yahoo.com>
> >>> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> >>> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:08 PM
> >>> Subject: [TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> please send any responses to my personal email , n8dcj@yahoo.com
> >>>>
> >>>> I have moved to a place with no land based broadband internet
> >>>> availability
> >>>> (no
> >>>> DSL or RoadRunner). Does anyone have any experience with satellite ? I
> >> am
> >>>> concerned about the latencies , the sales guy at WildBlue claims
> 250-500
> >>>> millisecond which i can live with , but , everywhere on the internet i
> >>>> see
> >>>> it is
> >>>> more like 2000 milliseconds. I do not think i can get any wireless
> stuff
> >>>> either
> >>>> as i am surrounded by tree's.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dan N8DCJ
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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