Qoiz
join:2005-06-26
 ·Cox HSI
| reply to fonzbear2000
Re: why doesn't satellite internet compete against cable and dsl
in other words, satellite company owner people are going to have to bring ALL ping times to AT WORST 500, find a way to provide unlimited data transfers at very high speeds(10+ mb/sec) and offer plans that are probably half as cheap as what the phone companies offer, all that just to make up for the glitches and limitations of satellite, but is that going to happen..?
never, unless a company has intentions of spending hundreds of billions or more per year with income of maybe a few hundred million, which is like a loss 100000 times greater than the profit. even then I would never switch, I would take my
5MB line over a 50MB satellite anyday! heck, id probably take even a 500k line over it....... maybe even 256, but probably not 128 since you cant watch videos very well, only load small webpages.
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I have had Direcway/Hughes for years. I've had trouble with them some until the latest system DW7000. It is blazing fast 1 to 1.5 kbps down most of the time- Kath159 |
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geoffinak3
Premium
join:2004-09-15
Big Lake, AK
 ·StarBand Communica..
| We need to remember that this country is still about 40% dial up, that is terrible. I see that Cellular is probably going to fill the gap as Sprint and Verizon seem pretty serious and if you have been stuck at 22K 750k down is just fine. Trust me you don't care about latency, you just open multiple web browsers.
Try going back to 25K or even less.
I think Satellite could have done it 5 years ago but got too greedy. So cell will be a big fill in.
This is important, not for games and VOIP, but for business and education. Those people who live in rural areas, heck I lived at SD city border and could get nothing, so had to go satellite. They need a way to educate themselves and their kids. W/O some sort of BB 40% is left out. We need to educate a few people in this country to build new ideas and overcome the seemingly complex but in reality solvable problems. Everything that was hard 20 years ago has mostly gotten a lot easier, not everything but we are accelerating so everyone needs to keep up. Things like satellites that work, if the government can read my credit card numbers, we should be able to educate the people who will be running what's left of this country in 40 years. We need help, look around things are not too good. What do we make.? What do we do.
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Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
 ·TDS
·WildBlue
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Trust me you don't care about latency, you just open multiple web browsers.
I just got DSL after 2 1/2 years on wildblue following 3 years on starband following a cable modem in 1999 and 2000. Trust me, I definitely care about latency -- the difference is a world apart between this 100 ms connection and my 1200 ms wildblue connection, even though the download and upload speeds are similar for large files.
But for those who have only dialup, satellite speed is definitely a huge improvement (I also got used to browsing in many tabs.) Just not nearly as good as low latency broadband.
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