Study: Rural Broadband In Serious Trouble > Simple Solution

reply to BF69

Re: Simple Solution

Oh, I've dealt with satellite. Back when HughesNet was "DirecWay", I couldn't even download a Linux ISO without getting FAP'd. Hell, standard Windows updates made short work of the bucket they give you everyday.

Only thing it was good for was, maybe, checking your email or running an IM.

Dialup is quite satisfactory for email.

reply to covfam
What would you have the satellite ISP's do? They cannot repeal the laws of physics. It takes the signal a certain amount of time to travel back and forth between the satellite in the sky and the ground. There is no way around that. Either live with it or don't subscribe to it.

reply to john262
satelite customers only exist still because the cable & telecom industry refuse to expand thier coverage yet they pay many millions of dollars to lobby state legistlators into making laws or puting walls of red tape making it difficult for new isp's to pop up in those areas, this issue is particularly bad in south carolina, wisconsin. for example this year the university of wisconsin was quite upset with the lack of AT&T coverage that was promised in a deal to connect all the campuses with high speed internet calling it badgernet well after many years later at&t only covers 30% of the campuses and refuses to complete the rollout. so university of wisconsin decided to build thier own... well at&t spent massive amounts of money to get legislators to make it impossible for university of wisconsin to do. once LET cellphone coverage gets better people will be able to get as much data cap and faster seed and less latency than Satelite can give and not cost much more than satelite now!

reply to Simba7
There is only a finite amount of bandwidth available from their satellites. And launching additional satellites requires years of planning and millions of dollars of investments as well as regulatory approval. They don't have the capacity to be able to offer bigger caps unfortunately.