[BC] Sat Internet Service

[SteveOrdinetz]

Chris Gebhardt wrote:

>It's been my experience that for things like general web browsing and
>email, you may as well stick with dial-up.   The reason is simple -
>bouncing everything off the satellite takes time.
>
>Now, I will admit my last experience with satellite Internet was a good
>7 or 8 years ago.  It was slow, buggy, didn't work in a big storm...
>take the worst of DBS and the Internet and combine them... that's
>satellite Internet for you.  So to say I'm not a fan would be an
>understatement.

Hate to tell ya, it hasn't improved much in those years.  Like 
someone else mentioned, I have it (Wildblue) here because that & 
dial-up are my only options.   It's still slow, buggy and doesn't 
work in storms.
I wouldn't even recommend it for streaming unless you don't mind 
dropouts.  I'll watch progress during a large download, and the data 
will stop for random lengths of time at random intervals.  There's no 
real pattern to it...sometimes it's fine, other times slower than 
dial-up.  YMMV.