firefly
join:2007-10-09
Grantsburg, IL
 ·SkyWay
|  reply to u2builder
Re: Skyway
Hi u2builder,
Yes, everything seems to be going great. I've had it since mid-September, and I've noticed that sometimes I will get burst rates near 1Mbps for several minutes. I'm still on the Gold plan of 768Kbps and I really like it alot. Just save all your major downloads for Midnight Madness and you should be fine. Watching YouTube videos is easy too. Skyway is much, much better than my old dial-up connection. Yes, I still do the unplug/plug in, just the power cord on the sat. modem since I'm in the routine of doing it without thinking about it. It takes just a few seconds before and after each internet session. I haven't tried just leaving it plugged in to the power all the time but I guess I could just to see if the modem weirdness is still there. Using my method above has eliminated the speed issues I had when I started out. I just thought it was a modem firmware issue and resetting the modem by unplugging/plugging the power cord fixed it, so I just stuck to doing that all the time.
I get my Gold plans speed as advertised and personally, I very happy especially coming from living in the sticks with no other broadband type of service available.
Hope you like your Skyway as well. What plan are you going to get?
I believe Skyway's RUP is better than Wild Blue's because Wild Blue doesn't have a free download time like Skyway's Midnight Madness. And Wild Blue's RUP requires you to really slow down your data requests in order to refill a data bucket. Skyway has no bucket to refill, if over the month your download speed is reduced based on your useage, then on your next billing date your speed will be returned to full speed. Wild Blue does not do this.
I chose Skyway because of all the horror stories I read about Wild Blue and Hughesnet. Plus I wanted a backup connection, like that of the dial-up part of Skyway's service just in case something happened with the satellite link.
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