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Re: high speed internet help

I would defenitely reccomend staying away from satelite internet. We had it for a year till we could get DSL last september and its not all its cracked up to be. The latency of the connection is what stinks, it was always at least double that of regular dial-up, so it takes just as long to load pages and surf the net. Downloading is great on it once you have established a connection - easily outstripping any dsl or cable connection, but it has a rather low download limit of 160 Mb per 4 hours.

We also had trouble with it being improperly installed the first time, which led to the service cutting out regularly (daily, or every couple of days) and being easily swayed by the slightest bit of weather. Once it was reinstalled correctly, which took at least 7 months to get them to do as well as a couple hundred to cover the pole for mounting, it worked much better in that it hardly ever cut out. It still had bad latency (ping times between 1500 and 3000) and still had a very annoying download limit that you could max out in 15 minutes if you tried, then you were completely cut off for 4 hours.

Anyways, thats my experience with it.
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