VIASAT
Satellite Broadband Internet For The Rest Of Us!!
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| I AM THE FUTURE! |
Broadband in the boonies has long been an unreasonable ask.
As slack-jawed farmers are fond of telling lost tourists "Ya can't get
there from here," broadband-starved country bumpkins have heard from cable
companies, "We don't offer service in that location." Options have
been few, like paying said cable company thousands to run some copper a few
miles down the road, or making a second mortgage payment for a dedicated T3
line.
Over the years satellite Internet has been offered as an alternative for broadband in places where bears do their business, but as we've seen it's never really worked. Bandwidth has been low, latency high and pricing on the tall side of average have made services like WildBlue and HughesNet untenable to all but the most dedicated wilderness lovers.
Now a new player approaches, and the offerings certainly sound compelling. It's
called Exede
from ViaSat and it promises speeds of up to 12Mbps down and 3Mbps up --
comparable to your average household "broadband" connection. However,
with monthly fees ranging from $50 to $130 depending on how much data you need,
this has the potential to be considerably more costly is it worth it? Well its
mainly for the enterprise or government networks but now is offing Internet to
the public with little or no choice for real broadband Internet. If you are in an area that doesn’t get Internet through fiber nor cable this may be for you! Make sure you have no
trees in the area where your ViaSat Dish will be pointing or if you do make
sure their not close to the area which can block the view of the dish to the
orbiting satellites. Next find out if you can afford the monthly bill this will
cost a bit more to get and use than the standard broadband lines due to the
cost of the hardware and the service required. Finally if you live in an area
that gets stormy a lot this may reduce the liability of the use of the ViaSat
due to the clouds, moisture, & electrical interference from the roaming
storm lowing the connection quality of speed and sometime outage till the storm
lessens. This is why most go for the
cable solution less to no downtime and high bandwidth through put which until now
satellite bandwidth was low and slower than the average dialup speed. But even
though I personally don’t need this system from ViaSat I love the idea of this
true High speed broadband service via the newest technology via satellite
connection, if you think your one who needs this like if your living in the
boon docks or something or out in the wilderness in a cabin this is a great
safe bet. I know one person who uses this system and stated that it was the
best he had ever seen since the very low speed and unreliable HughesNet service
he had previously. His average speeds were 2 -5Mbps to 200mbps upload which is
good enough for Netflix and downloads.
On the site there are a lot of deals on waiving the equipment purchasing
and a 24 month deal which was good in my mind so take a look and tell us what
you think!
Over the years satellite Internet has been offered as an alternative for broadband in places where bears do their business, but as we've seen it's never really worked. Bandwidth has been low, latency high and pricing on the tall side of average have made services like WildBlue and HughesNet untenable to all but the most dedicated wilderness lovers.
Now a new player approaches, and the offerings certainly sound compelling. It's
called Exede
from ViaSat and it promises speeds of up to 12Mbps down and 3Mbps up --
comparable to your average household "broadband" connection. However,
with monthly fees ranging from $50 to $130 depending on how much data you need,
this has the potential to be considerably more costly is it worth it? Well its
mainly for the enterprise or government networks but now is offing Internet to
the public with little or no choice for real broadband Internet. If you are in an area that doesn’t get Internet through fiber nor cable this may be for you! Make sure you have no
trees in the area where your ViaSat Dish will be pointing or if you do make
sure their not close to the area which can block the view of the dish to the
orbiting satellites. Next find out if you can afford the monthly bill this will
cost a bit more to get and use than the standard broadband lines due to the
cost of the hardware and the service required. Finally if you live in an area
that gets stormy a lot this may reduce the liability of the use of the ViaSat
due to the clouds, moisture, & electrical interference from the roaming
storm lowing the connection quality of speed and sometime outage till the storm
lessens. This is why most go for the
cable solution less to no downtime and high bandwidth through put which until now
satellite bandwidth was low and slower than the average dialup speed. But even
though I personally don’t need this system from ViaSat I love the idea of this
true High speed broadband service via the newest technology via satellite
connection, if you think your one who needs this like if your living in the
boon docks or something or out in the wilderness in a cabin this is a great
safe bet. I know one person who uses this system and stated that it was the
best he had ever seen since the very low speed and unreliable HughesNet service
he had previously. His average speeds were 2 -5Mbps to 200mbps upload which is
good enough for Netflix and downloads.
On the site there are a lot of deals on waiving the equipment purchasing
and a 24 month deal which was good in my mind so take a look and tell us what
you think!
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