[AT] OT - Satellite Internet

[Clint D]

Humm? I have not run into any type of limits using Wildblue service
Clint

oldiron62 at gmail.com wrote:
> The hughesnet. sux for what you get at 69.99 monthly,
> 250mb download cutoff for every 24 hours.
> If you exceed you get CUT off for 24 hours, but it dont use no phone line. 
> And is on 24-7 runs from a bit over 1 mb to 750 kbs down and 1/2 that or 
> less up.
> This is the 2nd sat provider we have had, the first was direct way.
> Also have tried the microwave, no deals. an also cingular wifi that had so 
> weak signal that it couldnt hardly find the router sitting on the shelf 10 
> feet away.
> If I had dialup 24.4 k there would be no question about it go with the 
> hughesnet / wildblue or whatever just remember not to download no great big 
> programs ect.
> Or get ready for very limited internet for the next 24 hours. And its easy 
> to go the 250m in an hour or two.
> O ya and get used to talking to service in india, phillipines, or other far 
> off place that speaks strange english.
>
> Kevin
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>> I don't live as rurally as some of you folks, but where I live we have no
>> cable TV/cable internet and no DSL service. Just dial up that varies with
>> the rainfall.
>>
>> Anyone using Hughesnet satellite internet service and if so what do you
>> think about it?
>>
>> Warren
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