Satellite Internet

[Joe S]

I've been told that DSL or cable will not be available at my house in the foreseeable future, so I'm breaking down and buying the rip off alternative -satellite. The cheapest plan is $60 a month plus about $300 up front for equipment and installation :angry: Makes me sick that dsl is $15 a month. The satellite people have us hillbillies by the gonads.

I have to do it, though. LAD loads way too slow. Plus it takes hours to download anything. I can't stand it anymore.

[tking]

I've been told that DSL or cable will not be available at my house in the foreseeable future, so I'm breaking down and buying the rip off alternative -satellite. The cheapest plan is $60 a month plus about $300 up front for equipment and installation :angry: Makes me sick that dsl is $15 a month. The satellite people have us hillbillies by the gonads.

I have to do it, though. LAD loads way too slow. Plus it takes hours to download anything. I can't stand it anymore.


I understand. Fortunately our phone company here has branched out into a more tech-savvy market and DSL is available as well as satellite (or soon to be satellite). I just hope they don't get overwhelmed or we'll have to go to satellite too. That's not something I particularly want to do since the weather effects the satellite. We already have to have DISH (or the like) for television as the cable here is owned by another company hundreds of miles away and it's a pitiful excuse for cable. And you're right, us rural folks are just without much choice.

[Tallen]

Our phone company offers DSL, it is Ameritech and ATT long distance. This is what we use at work, works good and is on the phone line.

At home I have Comcast cable. They are putting in digital phone, which they want me to sign up for. But the internet is really fast, and runs about 8mb/sec. most of the time.

Bought a new TV a couple of weeks ago, one of those big screened jobs, LCD. Had to get a new cable box to make it work, the "new cable package" has more channels and is $39 cheaper per month than the old package, go figure.

I don't have long distance on my home line any more, cause I use a cell phones and I don't use that much long distance. But every once in awhile, the cell phone company, SPRINT, will leave me a text message at 3 AM, and the beeper goes off and wakes me up. And if you ignore it, it keeps beeping every minute..., all night long.

WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO!!!

Let us know how the satelite package works out.

[JohnStevenson]

I would be curious to hear where I can get DSL for $15 per month. I've been paying 3 to 4 times that amount for years down here in South Florida. They may advertise that it is less, but after the extra taxes and charges the price goes up considerably.

[JBaker45]

I would be curious to hear where I can get DSL for $15 per month. I've been paying 3 to 4 times that amount for years down here in South Florida. They may advertise that it is less, but after the extra taxes and charges the price goes up considerably.
Hey John S.

Welcome to LAD brother! :smile:

[Tallen]

I would be curious to hear where I can get DSL for $15 per month. I've been paying 3 to 4 times that amount for years down here in South Florida. They may advertise that it is less, but after the extra taxes and charges the price goes up considerably.

Yes, I pay around $49 a month for Comcast. It started as $19 for the first few months and then... BAMMMMM. http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_6_8.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSYYYYYYYYUS)







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[Joe S]

Good to hear from you! :sparkle:

I got the DSL price from here- http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/dsl/

Verizon says $15 a month for life with a 2 year commitment. I didn't dig too deep because it isn't available for me. Maybe it's so bandwidth restricted it's no good, I don't know.

I'm waiting on my tax refund to get the satellite hook-up. I'm excited. :bigeyes:

[Joe S]

Well I got my sattelite from WildBlue. $49 a month, 7500 mb download a month, $200 dollars parts and installation. The least of broadbands I reckon at only 512 kbs down and 128 kbs up. It's probably more like intermediateband. Nevertheless it is jackrabbit fast next to my dial up and I am pleased :-).

I've been on a downloading binge, finally able to take advantage of Monergism.com's vast multi-media archive. LAD loads up pretty fast too :-)

It seems to be oblivious to the weather, not slowing down for clouds and rain. High traffic times slow it down though.

[TigerBunny]

Well I got my sattelite from WildBlue. $49 a month, 7500 mb download a month, $200 dollars parts and installation. The least of broadbands I reckon at only 512 kbs down and 128 kbs up. It's probably more like intermediateband. Nevertheless it is jackrabbit fast next to my dial up and I am pleased :-).

I've been on a downloading binge, finally able to take advantage of Monergism.com's vast multi-media archive. LAD loads up pretty fast too :-)

It seems to be oblivious to the weather, not slowing down for clouds and rain. High traffic times slow it down though.

Are you hard limited to the 7500MB per month or do you get charged for going over it? That may seem like a lot but it's easily exceeded with media downloads.

[Tallen]

Sounds about what the going rate is Joe. My service runs up to 8mb/s, but most of the time it runs much slower. There are many factors in this and like you said if there is heavy use, this goes down fast.

[Joe S]

If you go over the 7500 within 30 days they "punish" you by throttling the speed back to 128Kbs. Yeah, high bandwidth activities like webcaming and downloading movies is out of the question really.

HughsNet gives you 200 mb every 24 hours, and throttles back to 56k if you go over. But Hughs has a 3AM-6AM window of unlimited bandwidth, if you just gotta do heavy downloading.

I think the 7500 will be adequate for me. I hate 90% of movies anyway, and don't webcam. I'm not really interested in music much anymore either. Must be gettin old.

[Joe S]

Yesterday it was rainy and it was offline all day and night. Today as thick clouds blow across it disconnects.

Oh well, I'll have to make the best of it. On nights when I can't internet I'll catch up on reading.

[JBaker45]

I've been told that DSL or cable will not be available at my house in the foreseeable future, so I'm breaking down and buying the rip off alternative -satellite. The cheapest plan is $60 a month plus about $300 up front for equipment and installation :angry: Makes me sick that dsl is $15 a month. The satellite people have us hillbillies by the gonads.

I have to do it, though. LAD loads way too slow. Plus it takes hours to download anything. I can't stand it anymore.
Sounds like you have few alternates Joe.

Of course, you could always come and join us city-slickers :BubbleGum:

[tking]

Yesterday it was rainy and it was offline all day and night. Today as thick clouds blow across it disconnects.

Oh well, I'll have to make the best of it. On nights when I can't internet I'll catch up on reading.

Ugh...I hope our daughter doesn't run into this kind of trouble. She recently moved to a little town and they literally have no other options there.

[vja4Him]

I though I was paying too much for satellite Internet service .... $35.00/mo. for Clearwire (slow speed). I did have the higher speed (double what I have now), for $43.00/mo., but there was no difference at all!!! I could get dial-up for I think around $12.00/mo., but I think it would be so slow, that the service wouldn't be worth my time ...


I've been told that DSL or cable will not be available at my house in the foreseeable future, so I'm breaking down and buying the rip off alternative -satellite. The cheapest plan is $60 a month plus about $300 up front for equipment and installation :angry: Makes me sick that dsl is $15 a month. The satellite people have us hillbillies by the gonads.

I have to do it, though. LAD loads way too slow. Plus it takes hours to download anything. I can't stand it anymore.