 Review by T_Flight 
UPDATED: 221 days ago
member for 340 days, 95 visits, last login: 23 days ago
 undisclosed location
 $49 per month (month by month)
 about 7 days
 "Very Fast, Very Stable, Low Latency"
 "So Far None"
 "Great Internet Service"
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The great part about this service was that I was finally able to game, and sim online which is something I had been wanting to do for years since moving into this house. Out here, Satelite is the only braodband choice other than EVDO Wireless. We are too far for DSL, the Cable company refuses to come out this way, and I've been told they are horrible to deal with if you have issues. There is no Fiber Optic, and T1-T3 lines are criminally expensive. Too expensive to be feasible.
I am extremely staisfied with my Service. I don't have a contract, the service is sompletely unlimited, I pay by the month, Millenicom has great service over the phone with no waits. I get to talk to a real human being who cares, and knows what they are talking about, and genuinely wants to help me. I have called them a few times for informational purposes to help improve performance, and they have been quite helpful. I got my MSL Code from them and it took all of 2 minutes. They explained to me how to set my HA and provided me with information on it. They have given me other tweaks to get the most from my service, and have explained the DEBUG in great detail via elevated support.
I have read of Sprints Billing woes, and horrible service, and the illegal fees they have ben charging, so decided it was best to avoid Sprint. They have good equipment, but it's not backed with any kind of service. They have long waits, they have reports of overcharging customers and being slow ro rectify the issue which sometimes takes mnay months for the user to get their money back, and I knew to avoid that type of thing.
I used to use StarBand, and had decent service, but over the years they have oversold their bandwidth, and speeds dropped, and the ping times were always very high which kept me from being ablke to enjoy streaming media, and my online flying I love so much.
Millenicom is a straight up company. They are professional, courteous, and they get it done when you make a request of them. They have made no mistakes on my Billing, and they bill me each month electronically, and send a coutesy letter notifying me of the transaction.
There are no strings, gimmicks, ripoff scams, or illegal charges, or hidden fees.
I paid 100 security deposit for the equipment, and 49 dollars each month. All that they ask of my is that I am not deliquent on my payments, and that if I cancel I send the Equipment back to them as it was received in working order with all cables, and accesories in the original packaging.
My Speeds Average about 2000 down and 350-400 Up. My lag times are genrrally around 100ms with spikes to 130ms, and I get about 80ms to our server we fly on. The Equipment provided is the Franklin CDU-680 Modem. It has worked nicely, and is quite small and thin compared to other units I have seen out there. It also has GPS, and a built in flash drive with the software, which makes it nice for travel as I can use a freinds computer and have Internet should something happen to mine.
For Wireless Internet this is as good as it gets. I couldn't ask for anything more.
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