[Hidden-tech] Satellite broadband

Christopher Parker conductorchris at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 09:41:55 EDT 2012


Robert gave you the technical details, but let me just chime in that 
satellite is awful.  It is in no way a substitute for real broadband.  
It's better than dial up, that's all that can be said.

I do work from home and make it work, but it certainly has an impact.

It also makes a difference on property values.  Yesterday I started to 
give someone directions to a house for sale up near Robert and I don't 
know how it came up, but when they learned there was only satellite 
internet they turned right around and were no longer interested in 
looking at the property.

However all this could change this summer as both Hughes net and 
WildBlue are launching new satellites which promise to be 10 times 
faster.  We'll see.

Christopher


On 6/15/2012 8:07 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
>     ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>     ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
> At Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:40:30 -0400 Peter Jaros<peter.a.jaros at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>     ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>     ** If you did, we all thank you.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone on the list have experience with Wild Blue satellite
>> broadband (or anything similar)?  My brother-in-law is moving to
>> Ashfield.  He works from home currently, and uses VoIP and other
>> services all day.  He needs a real broadband provider, and he'll be
>> too far from the town centers for cable or DSL.  He should be able to
>> get his company to pay for even an expensive plan, but is there one
>> good enough?  Or will he need to find an office in town instead?
> Generally speaking Satellite internet has too much latency for video
> conferencing or for VPN.  It works some of the time for VoIP, but not
> really well due to the latency issues (voice is less sensitive to
> latency compared to video).  Some VoIP services work better than others.
>
> The other issue is bandwidth use.  All Satellite providers have a 'Fair
> Use Policy' which limits the amount of data that can be downloaded in a
> given period (HughesNet is measured over a 24hour period and Wild Blue
> uses a monthly average).  If you excede the limit, they cut you off for
> a while.
>
> Other than an office in town, his only other option would be a T1 line
> (about $500/month).  A full T1 is 1.5 MBit -- not terribly fast
> (compared to modern cable or DSL), but it is dedicated and has no
> latency issues.
>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>


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