I've had satellite for a couple months. It's supposed to be 1.5Mbps down, but I never see even close to that of course. The best I've gotten was around 130Kbps with bittorrent. I'm pretty sure we're being rate-limited now, though, because I haven't seen above 16K in a month or so. My connection drops at least once every couple days (more often if I run bittorrent), and I have to have the router release and renew the IP to regain it. Oh, and the lag is on the order of several seconds, so gaming would be atrocious. If Comcast ran their cable another half mile down to me, or the GR WiMax project ever gets off the ground, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
(First post btw)
On Dec 12, 2007 8:18 AM, Topher <topher@wcsg.org> wrote:
>> Anyway, satellite Internet connectivity is available anywhere satellite
>> TV is. Not cheap, at about $62 a month, it is now about 1.5Mbps down
>> and 128 Kbps up. I suspect there are byte quotas for each day.
>
> $62 a month is reasonable, considering a T1 circuit and Ineternet
> service is typically $500/month.
My sister just signed up for satellite service up north ( I don't know
which service :( ) and she got the "cheap" version for $80/mo. They could
upgrade to 1.5Mb, so I'm guessing cheap is 768k.
Topher
Manager of Internet Services
Cornerstone University Radio
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