I'm happy that you're happy, but my friends, who have the slower
package, are not so pleased. Both often receive speeds in the 100K
range, not the 500K advertised.
One is often unable to connect at all, and the other runs into the
bandwidth limit quite often, resulting in a slow-down of his service.
Neither speaks well of customer service.
Neither are these folks, or the other 197,000 Google hits on "Wild Blue
complaints:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/internet/wild_blue_p2.html
So, I stand by my comment, which is totally accurate, especially when
comparing apples to apples.
I wouldn't discourage anyone from trying it when they have no
alternative and can afford it, but it's a very pale imitation of
broadband.
YMMV.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Satellite and VOIP
From: Dean Kukral <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, December 28, 2009 7:30 am
To: [log in to unmask]
I don't agree that Wildblue is "better than dial up, but not by a whole
lot."
net).
Now, my wife and I can download huge files that are updates to Windows,
games, or whatever. We can shop without waiting forever for a new page
to come up. We can do just about everything that we want to do,
including downloading music from iTunes and watching Youtube movies. We
regularly send and receive movie clips Megabytes in length. Most of
that we couldn't have done easily with our dial-up. The basic $50/month
Wildblue package has a maximum transfer rate for 500Kb per second, which
is about 20 times faster than our old dial-up. 10 times better than a
well-oiled 56K system. The $80/month package has a rate of 1.5Mb per
second, which is what we have.
So, I think that it is totally unfair and inaccurate to say that it is
not a whole lot better than dial-up. It is immensely better than
dial-up and has allowed us to do many things that we couldn't have done
before.
The two limitations that Wildblue gives me are, first, a limit on the
amount of material that I can receive in one month. The limit is very
high, and I have never come close to approaching it, but that is because
of the second limitation. 1.5Mb per second is not quite fast enough to
download video in real time. I have never downloaded a movie or watched
a streamed sporting event live. I have never tried, really. I suppose
that I could download a movie, but I don't have my computer connected to
my home media center in any case, and I don't care to watch television
at my desk.
So, if downloading movies and watching streaming video events is the
main reason that you want Wildblue, then you might well feel that it is
not much better than dial-up. Even that is a stretch, however, because
you could, conceivably, do either one, where it would be virtually
impossible to do that with a dial-up.
Dean Kukral
On 12/26/2009 10:55 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > From the Vonage site:
> "Satellite broadband consists of relayed signals from another satellite
> that is in orbit and this technology is not recommended for use with
> Vonage." You'd probably have issues with latency and bandwidth, and
> satellite is not as reliable as your phone carrier.
> I have two friends with Wild Blue, and it's better than dial up, but not
> by a whole lot.
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Satellite and VOIP
> From: Joyce A<[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sat, December 26, 2009 6:40 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> At this point in time, I am seriously considering installing a satellite
>
> uplink. My maximum dial-up speed is just too darned slow for today's
> sites, and there won't be another way to connect to high-speed "out
> here" in the rusty hills of Ohio for many more years, if ever in my
> lifetime. Moving is not an option.
>
> My question is, will a VOIP service (such as Vonage or Magic Jack) work
> with a satellite connection? I'm getting ____ sick and tired of
> Verizon, and I think I'd save money over their, uh, "service" if it's
> possible to do this... Thanks in advance for any and all input
>
> Joyce in SE Ohio
>
>
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