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Sattelite Internet
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Sorry to read of your dismay. I switched from DSL to Exede satellite service last year. As I understand it, Exede is owned by the Wildblue folks.
Our DSL reliability was exceedingly poor due to line noise the phone company techs could never isolate. Very frustrating to constantly lose sync.
Our service with Exede has been very reliable. Speeds are faster than we were getting on DSL too. The only two downsides are the higher cost and the large latencies (typically .7 seconds round trip times to most sites.) However I have been able to use Skype and Webex successfully. When I do Webex demos I'll use Plain Old Telephone Service for audio and Desk top sharing for the normally live demos.
The only aviation related aspect was that I got to chatting with the satellite dish installer. Turned out he was a pilot, too. Had spent a lot of time flying in Alaska and had owned several planes over the years. I'm afraid his install took longer than it should have because we talked a lot about flying. He didn't mind and neither did I.
Our DSL reliability was exceedingly poor due to line noise the phone company techs could never isolate. Very frustrating to constantly lose sync.
Our service with Exede has been very reliable. Speeds are faster than we were getting on DSL too. The only two downsides are the higher cost and the large latencies (typically .7 seconds round trip times to most sites.) However I have been able to use Skype and Webex successfully. When I do Webex demos I'll use Plain Old Telephone Service for audio and Desk top sharing for the normally live demos.
The only aviation related aspect was that I got to chatting with the satellite dish installer. Turned out he was a pilot, too. Had spent a lot of time flying in Alaska and had owned several planes over the years. I'm afraid his install took longer than it should have because we talked a lot about flying. He didn't mind and neither did I.
Ping 925 msTom-D said:
Download speed 20.80 Mbps
Upload speed 3.14 Mbps
Service provider: Wildblue Communications (via Exede.com)
Latency is bad (as to be expected via geosync satellite,) but bit rate is better than I was getting with DSL. Also more reliable than DSL was (we had a noisy phone line the techs could never clean up.) Have successfully used Skype and Webex over that link. Tried netrek, which is an old old real-time network game on it, but as expected the latency is too much to survive a twitch game.