[TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet

[Michael Goins]

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 at 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 at pa.net>
> To: "Dan Bookwalter" <N8DCJ at YAHOO.COM>; <towertalk at 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 at yahoo.com>
> > To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:08 PM
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet
> >
> >
> >> please send any responses to my personal email , n8dcj at 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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