[TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet

[John - K4WJ]

Dan,

I now live in a rural area where cable TV is not available and my local 
phone company, AT&T, has not upgraded the facilities to allow DSL. I would 
switch to DSL in a heartbeat if it was available.

I've been using Wild Blue for a little over two years. It is Okay. Dealing 
with their agents was disappointing. I say "was" because I don't bother 
calling them anymore. The only reason I will call them is when I lose the 
satellite signal and we don't have bad weather here. That happened once in 
the last two years and I was told that the head-end had a very bad storm. 
The satellite signal was not lost very long before it was restored. I would 
say it was restored in 15 minutes or less.

Good luck with your choice,

73..de John/K4WJ


----- 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
>
>