internet

[Ducmarc]

anybody use hughes.net for satellite internet. living out in the sticks all we got is land line. there ads look promising.

[daviid]

one of my former pm's had satelitte internet. he never had anything good to say about it

[LilJayRR]

Our office has used it for a few years as there was no other option for high speed internet available. Is it faster than a dial up hell yeah. It has it limitations tho. If you want to do any gaming forget about it, way too much latency in it and you will get too much lag to play.

If you have some basic computer/router knowledge it makes it a bit easier to dianose when problems arise. Ours had to be reset (turned off and back on) every few months. It wasn't prefect but it was far from horrible.

[Ducmarc]

thanks for the imput to old for gaming just would like to get into some real time race programs or at least down load utube at reasonable speed

[matt49g]

I live in the sticks also, where dial-up service was so slow that even the speed of light was mutated, everything I read about any of the satelite internet is it's a poor cousin at best.  What I found was an "air card", a little device, about the size of a cell phone, that hooks in a USB port, no batteries, no power cord.  I bought mine through Best Buy and the service is through Verizon, but Verizon has the whole package, with plans that start at $39.99.  Verizon now has ads on TV, the one where the lady gets locked in the cage.  I've had mine for three months now and have had no problems, the speed seems on par with DSL or cable internet, and we're in an area that get's poor cell phone reception.  The coolest thing is if you have a laptop, you can take it anywhere.  The least cool, it can be used with only one computer at a time.  I'd definitely give it a very close look, and I don't even have stock in the company.

Matt

[LilJayRR]

Good point on the air card thing. I have one through Sprint for work too. It works decent as long as you have even a little signal. I've used it at Summit (works but is slow, about 56k speeds) Same for CMP. It works pretty good at VIR tho, but they have wireless internet already, so no need to use there. I take mine everywhere with me for work and I love it. Linksys even makes a wireless router WRT54G3G-ST for Sprint mobile broadband cards that you can hook it up to and share it with all the rest of you computers.

Might be another good option to think about for sure.