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 Review by Luvfishin 
UPDATED: 22 days ago
member for 6.5 years, 2011 visits, last login: 1 days ago
 St George Brant,ON
 Contract price not specified.
 "Faster the my old ku"
 "Still costly and latency as with all satellite net services"
 "Am not very happy overall (costly and slow)"
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I replaced my Direcway (Lincsat) with the new Telesat ka from Xplornet (formerly Lincsat) here in Canada. I simply wanted faster speeds and I certainly got that. It is costly, but I have no other choices. However, I am getting a 1mb d/l service with 256kbps u/l for the same price as my old 500 d/l and 50 u/l.
The only catch is the equipment (dish and modem cost $699.00 and install was $300.00) as it requires all new equipment and does not use any of the old Direcway equipment.
Install and setup took about 2 hours and it was a breeze. My dealer here always treats me well and does a great job.
Tech support is a phone call away and I have not needed them.
Connection seems better in rain/snow and no problems so far.
Value for the money is of course a toss up. I am in an area where I have no choice; and to compare satellite to cable or dsl is almost unfair. However, it could be less costly and monthly rates could be less. I pay $89.99/month plus tax and it is much better value than the Direcway which was identically priced.
So far, so good and I'll do an update in a while.
Speeds are averaging around 950 down and 250 up with bursts of up to 1.4 mb down and 380kbps up.
*Update* Upgraded on Feb 6/06 to 1.5mb down, 300 up and and impressed. Averaging 1200 down/300up and solid in lousy weather. No networking/router issues at all. Expensive, but my only option. Xplornet email doesn't want to work with my Yahoo...humm...tech was not helpful. Am using "forwarding email" to get my Xplornet mail.
*Update* Update on May 18/08 and am still getting the 1.5/300 KaBang service which is getting slower and for $149.00/month should be poppin'! Am told their sat space is overcrowded, but who knows. I have relocated my dishes to a very nice stainless pole mount (added new picture). I sure wish I was a wee bit closer for DSL as the satellite is very costly.
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