High speed internet by satellite

[Cephas]

Gentlemen,

My wife and I will be moving back to Louisiana from Chicagoland in the coming months. One of the places we've been looking at has a nice 2 acres of room, but no cable service. Tell me, are there any options for high speed/bandwidth internet by satellite feed? Does anyone here have any experiences with this? What kind of experiences?
The contractor for the construction project that moved us up here started out with Hughes.net, but that relationship turned sour the first time a big submittal was passed around & auto-downloaded. I'd like to avoid them if possible.

Any and all feedback is sorely appreciated.

[M's]

I believe that Dish network offers high speed through their dish.

[One_Medic_Army]

When we first moved to our current house, we got internet via a dish pointed at a transmitter placed inside the city proper.
It was crap, the latency was horrific, though the speed wasn't bad.

Satellite, from what I understand, is orders of magnitude worse.

[Plinko]

Things may have improved somewhat, but my understanding is the upstream for satellite is usually done via dialup, so it's utterly and completely useless for anything that requires low-latency communication (ie gaming). If gaming is very important to you, I'd be wary.

[Clay Pigeon]

Satellite has very crappy latency.


You'd be better off getting ISDN 128K installed if the prices are anywhere close. Your speeds will be low, but you'll have a much better ping for gaming.

[TACOBELL]

do you get a telephone line? if so see if dsl is available... otherwise dish it up.. aircards/satellite internet is horrific...

[MateoTheBold!]

I have a friend who is forced to use satellite for his internet and his latency is horrible. Avoid it unless its your last resort if you care about gaming.

[Cephas]

*An Corp*

I've spoken with internet provider in the area. Charter Cable doesn't want to bother running line out in my direction, so AT&T it is. They can give me their top DSL, which clocks in [up to] 6 Mbps downstream, ½ Mbps upstream. I'm not sure off the top of my head how much of a step back it is from what I have now, but I figure it has to be: it's a third of what I'm paying now.

[One_Medic_Army]

*An Corp*

I've spoken with internet provider in the area. Charter Cable doesn't want to bother running line out in my direction, so AT&T it is. They can give me their top DSL, which clocks in [up to] 6 Mbps downstream, ½ Mbps upstream. I'm not sure off the top of my head how much of a step back it is from what I have now, but I figure it has to be: it's a third of what I'm paying now.

That's what we used to have at my house before we upgraded to Uverse.
It's crap.

[Clay Pigeon]

*in nox*
*corp por*
*an mani*

dsl isn't that bad, and generally gets good pings.

[Stevo]

*An Corp*

I've spoken with internet provider in the area. Charter Cable doesn't want to bother running line out in my direction, so AT&T it is. They can give me their top DSL, which clocks in [up to] 6 Mbps downstream, ½ Mbps upstream. I'm not sure off the top of my head how much of a step back it is from what I have now, but I figure it has to be: it's a third of what I'm paying now.

I've had that for years with little trouble.

[ketchuo]

*An Corp*

I've spoken with internet provider in the area. Charter Cable doesn't want to bother running line out in my direction, so AT&T it is. They can give me their top DSL, which clocks in [up to] 6 Mbps downstream, ½ Mbps upstream. I'm not sure off the top of my head how much of a step back it is from what I have now, but I figure it has to be: it's a third of what I'm paying now.

I have the same thing, it isnt bad if you manage downloads and what not.

[Stevo]

This might be something to consider: http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp ... 95KAU34U6u