Satellite internet

[Kings Faithful]

Want real crap internet? Try going back to dial-up.

Satellite = a $70 a month version of Dial Up except you don't need two phone lines to talk and browse the internet at the same time and it only goes fast between 12 am and 3 am (if you can stay up that late)... regular speeds during the day are 10 and 50 kbps... which is slower than dial up. So believe me, i definitely share you pain.

 

[rhythmless]

Satellite = a $70 a month version of Dial Up except you don't need two phone lines to talk and browse the internet at the same time and it only goes fast between 12 am and 3 am (if you can stay up that late)... regular speeds during the day are 10 and 50 kbps... which is slower than dial up. So believe me, i definitely share you pain.

Why did you get satellite? I live in an area w/no cable/dsl connection, and after research, a wireless internet card was cheaper, easier to install, portable, and TONS faster.

I pay 50/mo for wireless internet. I get dl speeds of 100-120kbps. my connection speeds are 1.3d/.600u mbps.

do you have Hughesnet?

 

[bajaden]

If anyone finds a live internet feed I would appreciate the info. I can't get the radio feed. Apparently KHTK can't broadcast the game over the internet. The NBA has some strange rules. This particular rule prevents me from listening to the game. Instead I get to listen to a Sharks game.
Anyway, if anyone comes up with something let me know...

 

[Kings Faithful]

Why did you get satellite? I live in an area w/no cable/dsl connection, and after research, a wireless internet card was cheaper, easier to install, portable, and TONS faster.

I pay 50/mo for wireless internet. I get dl speeds of 100-120kbps. my connection speeds are 1.3d/.600u mbps.

do you have Hughesnet?

O believe me... I tried to get wirless. In fact I'm directly in the middle of a wireless coverage zone. Unfortunately I live in a canyon... aka internet hell. I'm going to have to wait for smarterbroadband (local wireless company) to put up a new antenna in an area they already have coverage... so yeah, I'm basically screwed. I've never heard of Hughesnet... perhaps you mean Hitlersnet... thats what I have.

 

[bajaden]

O believe me... I tried to get wirless. In fact I'm directly in the middle of a wireless coverage zone. Unfortunately I live in a canyon... aka internet hell. I'm going to have to wait for smarterbroadband (local wireless company) to put up a new antenna in an area they already have coverage... so yeah, I'm basically screwed. I've never heard of Hughesnet... perhaps you mean Hitlersnet... thats what I have.

Hughesnet is pretty popular down here in mexico. Its a satelite sourced internet. A lot of the beach people who have no electricity or telephone operate off generators or solar power along with a satelite dish. It works pretty well. Amazingly enough, most towns of any size down here in baja have DSL broadband. Something I couldn't even get in Rocklin when I lived there. Another system they use down here is something called, I think, Directsat. Its very similar to Hughesnet. One of these might work for you depending on your line of sight to the satelite.

 

[VF21]

He has HughesNet. He's using the other name facetiously.

There is a situation whereby your satellite internet company will arbitrarily reduce your speed to something between 10 and 50 kbps. It usually happens if you exceed their restrictions on bandwidth usage.

The problem people like Kings Faithful and I run into is that our phone lines simply do not support DSL. He lives in a canyon; I live in the middle of the forest. The phone lines are generally older and less likely to have state-of-the-art upgrades because of the lack of service requests.

 

[bajaden]

He has HughesNet. He's using the other name facetiously.

There is a situation whereby your satellite internet company will arbitrarily reduce your speed to something between 10 and 50 kbps. It usually happens if you exceed their restrictions on bandwidth usage.

The problem people like Kings Faithful and I run into is that our phone lines simply do not support DSL. He lives in a canyon; I live in the middle of the forest. The phone lines are generally older and less likely to have state-of-the-art upgrades because of the lack of service requests.

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