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Review by Sircolby45 See Profile
member for 6.2 years, 2680 visits, last login: a few hours ago
updated 19 days ago

  • Sidney,Comanche,TX
  • Contract price not specified.
  • "The dish is great for target practice...."
  • "Horrible latency!!!! Way worse than Hughesnet even!!!"
  • "Go Hughesnet if you haft to use satellite"
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Update4: The service has continued to get worse and worse and the prime time slowdowns are atrocious. There really is no redeeming factor with Wildblue. If you are thinking Exede is going to solve everything think again. The caps are even more atrociously small than the current ones. Exede is a big marketing joke.

Update3: Well at no surprise to me the downward trend continues. The satellite is becoming overloaded and download speeds are becoming less and less of what is advertised. Latency is still absolutely atrocious. The way things are looking right now Hughesnet is the lesser of the 2 evils.

Update2: Still same crap with no improvement whatsoever and no sign of improvement to come. The only thing that has changed is I think Hughesnet might be right down there with it now. If your looking into satellite do yourself a favor and lower your expectations to it being very little better than your dial-up in some areas and 0 better in others and you "might" not get disappointed. Also check to see if you have EVDO in your area first!!!

Update: Almost a year now with no improvement and no sign of improvement. The service just keeps getting more and more unreliable as time goes on. Between the weather outages and Wildblue related outages it is beginning to get to the point that there are multiple outages a week. If you are looking to get satellite internet, I would recommend you go with Hughesnet. They are **FAR** from perfect, but still seems to be better than Wildblue. It is more or less the lesser of the 2 evils. Unless satellite internet is all you can get though stay FAR FAR away. There is only 1 connection out there that it is better than and that is dial-up.

Since the November update the pings have gone to crap. It is basically gone down the tube. I would not recommend this service to my worst enemy.

Pinging yahoo.com [66.94.234.13] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1554ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1159ms TTL=46
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1206ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=2933ms TTL=47
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=2379ms TTL=47
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1223ms TTL=47
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1144ms TTL=46
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1170ms TTL=47
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1158ms TTL=47
Request timed out.
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1169ms TTL=46
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1156ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1160ms TTL=46
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1158ms TTL=47
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=1160ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 66.94.234.13:
Packets: Sent = 15, Received = 14, Lost = 1 (6% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1144ms, Maximum = 2933ms, Average = 1409ms

Wildblue Pro Pack / Beam 40 / Laredo Noc

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robthetexan

join:2012-01-24
Lone Oak, TX

Never do business with these people! Thieves!

If you want to get used and abused and sent down the corporate abyss, this is the only place you can go. This business will steal the money from your account!!!
First, went the $40 a month bait and and switch internet deal, which is`as fast as a phone line requiring you to upgrade to $80.00 pm for better, but nowhere near close as fast as DSL or cable. Sucks during rain and snow if it even works at all. Cloudy days cause disruption in service.
Then we moved to our present location. Installers were supposed to come out twice,but filed to do so. Require us to have disabled person to go on roof an remove part of their satelite. Idiots sent return box to put router and satelite piece to old location we no longer reside. Got stiffed for early termination fees of $165.00 because we went with local DSL instead.
Then called them and UPS to send return box to the correct location--(dealing with idiots). Wife got them to sen another box to current location. Has the name and claim # of the corporate goof, claiming there was an additional 20 days for box to get sent back with equipment. Low and behold 2 days later they drew out $365.00 out of our debit leaving us $40.00 overdrawn.
We are on a fixed income and don't need this!

These people will steal from your account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No matter how desperate you are for Internet, don't use them!

WildBlue Vic

@wildblue.net

Wild Blue Plans

I have read some horror stories about poor service quality, Wild Blue double billing its customers, and their Fair Access Policy (FAP). I have been lucky so far with the exception of the FAP.

I understand that the company's server are in space and does not have unlimited capacity. However, the new FAP plans are not much better than the old plans.

As it stands the data cap for my plan is 17GB download and 5 GB upload at the price of $80. The new plan will be 25GB download and 25GB upload. The upload allowance is nice but I really do not uploading very much. Another thing is the price is going to increase $50 and they are taking their sweet time about rolling out the new plans

Sircolby45

join:2005-11-26
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·WildBlue

Re: Wild Blue Plans

said by WildBlue Vic :

I have read some horror stories about poor service quality, Wild Blue double billing its customers, and their Fair Access Policy (FAP). I have been lucky so far with the exception of the FAP.

I understand that the company's server are in space and does not have unlimited capacity. However, the new FAP plans are not much better than the old plans.

As it stands the data cap for my plan is 17GB download and 5 GB upload at the price of $80. The new plan will be 25GB download and 25GB upload. The upload allowance is nice but I really do not uploading very much. Another thing is the price is going to increase $50 and they are taking their sweet time about rolling out the new plans

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but the new caps are actually significantly smaller. The $79.99 plan will have a cap of 15GB and that is not 15GB download and 15GB upload, but 15GB with download and upload both counting towards that amount. So where before you had a combined threshold of 22GB you will now have a combined threshold of 15GB. The 25GB plan is $130/mo.
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you forgot to include the $10 lease, so it's more like $60 more for just 3 more Gigs of bandwidth, but you will and should be faster.
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Dee

@wildblue.net

wild blue

This service is the worst I have ever had.

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Review by turtledove See Profile
member for 38 days, 0 visits, last login: 38 days ago
lodged 38 days ago

  • Locust Grove,Mayes,OK
  • Contract price not specified.
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Wildblue will say whatever they need to get business and string customers along. They really don't care about any of us.. probably get most of there profits from businesses. These new satellite packages are a joke. Wildblue is obviously high on crack!

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WildBlue Blu

@qwest.net

I Hate WildBlue!

OMG I hate them!! I've had emails in my Outbox since January 12 that won't send because I have NO SERVICE. Yet, when I get to work, I've had three emails from them in the last week that say they've DELIBERATELY cut my signal for continuing to "overuse". How is that possible??? Meanwhile they advertise for $49 (what I'm paying) that you can use multiple computers, download music, etc. but I can't send two emails!






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Review by packeteer See Profile
member for 73 days, 1 visits, last login: 60 days ago
updated 73 days ago

  • Tehachapi,Kern,CA
  • Contract price not specified.
  • "Great sales staff!???"
  • "Support, billing and customer (no)service SUCK!!!!"
  • "AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ANY COST!! no internet is better than this!!"
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I bought this service for a (very) rural cabin, the only utility is a occasionally operating telephone and "hold your mouth right" cell phone service, We make our own electricity (solar, wind and generator) satellite is our only option for TV and high speed Internet. I signed up with Wild Blue, the sales staff informed me that I could get the "Recovery act program" at no installation fee and a killer 29.95 a month with a one year contract! who could pass that deal up!

The installation went well, but the tech had to use my amplified mobile broadband (virgin mobile (-; ) to set up my account because the wild blue modem was not "auto configuring" like it was supposed to! after two hours he reconfigured the antenna wiring and everything worked just fine.

Just a week and a half later the email nasty grams started about "FAP" abuse! I'm only there three days a week and use VNC to check a webcam and some WX sensors a couple times a week?

Throttling to below dialup speeds began and with the "thirty day rolling" policy never sped up again Basically over a month at intolerable speeds. So far that is my Good News!

Fatefully an airplane crashed near our property starting a 14000 acre brush fire destroying our two cabins and six outbuildings including all of the WildBlue equipment.

We contacted WildBlue to inform them and asked for a bill to reimburse them for their lost gear. WildBlue said they first needed "concrete proof" that there was actually a fire!?!? We had at least five other neighbors with WildBlue that also had their homes and equipment lost to the fire!

After multiple contacts (some sympathetic others just calling us liars) and sending photos of what was left of their equipment and our property after a 2000 degree firestorm, we finally got a bill (two months later) threatening legal action and collection agencies? We quickly sent a check (certified mail) upon being informed of the delivery of that check we discovered they had charged our checking account directly! These (expletive deleted) had taken twice the money! In yet another phone conversation they accused us of theft of their equipment and overpaying them!

Sorry for a lengthy rant but I REALLY don't want to see anyone else have to deal with this level of incompetent, uniformed, uncaring, rude, uneducated, company culture that IS WildBlue.

I will now just plug along with My little Virgin Mobile dongle with a Cyphre Rockies amplifier (unlimited data 3G plan) which is still faster than WildBlue's FAP clamping!



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alanxenos
H. Sapien

join:2008-09-26
Winnetka, IL

Wildblue fap's regulary

What does WildBlue care if you fap?
OH, that's not what you mean....
JK, WildBlue sucks the big one.

Blue Sux

@mycingular.net

wild Blue is a Joke

I total agree, after having Wild Blue I would go without internet before returning to them. They are a rip off scam, they know if you are using them than you are at your last resort and they stick it to you, FAB you all the time. Total freaking rip off, can't believe they are still in business.

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Review by shortround See Profile
member for 104 days, 0 visits, last login: 104 days ago
updated 104 days ago

  • Beloit,Rock,WI
  • $80 per month
  • (24 month contract)
  • "Much faster then my dial up, good service if there is a problem"
  • "Much slower then cable would be but cable is not available"
  • "Best deal I can get at the moment for the money"
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I have had Wildblue now for almost four years. For the most part I am happy
with it. There have been times of slow downs and occasionally no service
but that doesn't happen very often and usually doesn't last long either.

I have internet by satellite because there is NO cable out where I live.
The companies don't want to run cables to where there might only be two or
three homes hooked up. So for me it is either wildblue or hughsenet.

My dial up never runs faster then 24Kb/sec. Wildblue runs at about 1-1.5 MB/sec.
I checked out hughesnet about six months ago to make sure I was getting the best deal for my money and it was going to cost me the same monthly fee WITH a new 2 year contract so why switch?

Hughes rates the download bandwidth differently so it was a bit confusing,
bare with me. IF I have it correctly, @ 350 MB per 24 hour period as your
limit, that adds up to a 30 day limit of 10500 MB per month. For the same
$80 per month Wildblue allows me 17000 MB with no 24 hour limit. That seems
like a better deal to me.

For $110 per month hughes will allow you 2.0 MB per second and 13500 MB per month. That is a bit faster then wildblue download speed but still short of the maximum bandwidth with wildblue and at $30 per month more money.

At least until some company runs truly high speed cable out here I must
stay with Wildblue. When my grandkids come to visit I see my monthly
allowance approach the bandwidth limit occasionally. If I was with
Hughesnet it would be turned off on many occasions when Wildblue is still
running.

If my grandkids want to download videos, I tell them to take their netbooks
to McDonalds and do it there on somebody else' penny.

I do a lot of research via the net and I usually have 40-50% of my
bandwidth allowance available.

Watching youtube videos will sometimes put me up to 80% of my allowance but
with one day of inactivity it will drop to 65% so it is not a major
inconvenience.

For the time being, wildblue is the best solution for me. But with speed of
of only 1.5M and 17000MB of limit per month cable would be a major improvement.

Sigh, maybe someday high speed cable will make out here to the boondocks. At least for now I have peace and quiet to go with my slow internet.

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mogamer

join:2011-04-20
Royal Oak, MI

Free fap time

Hughesnet does have a fap-free period where you have unlimited downloads. If your willing to stay up or schedule downloads during this time, you can easily double or triple your download allowance. If I had the mis-fortune to only have satellite as my internet option, I would most likely choose Hughesnet. Of course the new Viasat satellite may change the rules of the game.

anonymity

@wildblue.net

Re: Free fap time

VIASAT-1 doesn't service the whole country. Leaked info suggests 12 Meg down, 3 up, but keeping the same FAP allowance. Non Viasat-1 areas will probably be half the speed at most, but the same price. Leaked info so take it with a grain of salt, but it's consistent in a couple credible places.
mogamer

join:2011-04-20
Royal Oak, MI

Re: Free fap time

said by anonymity :

VIASAT-1 doesn't service the whole country. Leaked info suggests 12 Meg down, 3 up, but keeping the same FAP allowance. Non Viasat-1 areas will probably be half the speed at most, but the same price. Leaked info so take it with a grain of salt, but it's consistent in a couple credible places.

So, you don't think that Wild Blue will be selling roughly the same ViaSat-1 packages that xplornet has been advertising on their site? Some of those caps (business accounts) are extremely high for sat service. Even the residential service offers much higher caps than what's currently being offered.

anonymity

@wildblue.net

Re: Free fap time

A WB installer on the official WB forum claiming to have gone to a WB meeting gave that info, and the posts were shortly deleted.

Grain of salt, like I said, I just wouldn't hold my breath for more until some real numbers come out.

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Review by tymeat
(review was emailed from domain yahoo.com)
lodged 110 days ago

  • Hudson,Weld,CO
  • Contract price not specified.
  • "When work......"
  • "My connection is not working for about a month....i call and they want $$ for just coming to look at it.....its the second time"
  • "They control your connection, they can turn on...off....or slow you down. Get wildblue ONLY IF YOU HAVE TO"
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DONT GET WILDBLUE.....
UNLESS YOU REALY REALY HAVE TO......

I HAD IT AND CAN NOT WAIT UNTILL MY CONTRACT EXPRIE

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shortround

join:2011-10-30
Beloit, WI
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·WildBlue

Wild blue service

If they are suggesting you let a tech come and look at your system it is possible the satellite dish has been moved by wind, etc. Mine was out once, I think a deer crashed into it. I raised it up high enough they could walk under if before I called the service guy. There is a free time limit when there should NOT be a fee for visiting. When I had trouble they ran me through a system check first, so I assume they already did that. If you are past the initial warrant with a free visit the fee will depend on the independent installer. Get a price quote from him over the phone and tell him you are recording it. If any component has failed you should NOT have to pay for it or the service call. If your dish has moved off the satellite considered reinforcing it somehow.

Wild blue is still cheaper then Hughesnet.






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Review by musemaker See Profile
member for 2.8 years, 9 visits, last login: 121 days ago
updated 121 days ago

  • Laurel,Yellowstone,MT
  • Contract price not specified.
  • "Slow - Threshold Cap - Too Expensive"
  • "Don't buy it unless you have to."
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Wildblue is the one of the only options I have here at my location - Hughsnet is the other. Both are over priced compared to other ISPs. I have the "Value" package at $56.00 a month - 512kbs download speed, 128 kbs up, with a 7,500MB running threshold (within any 30 day period from day to day, I cannot exceed 7,500 MB of download. Add this to the failure of running Skype, streaming audio or video, and being unable to view full length video shows (threshold cap) and you have a very limited service. I just did a speed survey at the Montana Broadband Service website (»206.127.112.131/mtservice/) and got o.50mbps download, and 0.02 to 0.07mbps upload...that's pretty bad. It is even worse since I am disabled and cannot work - it limits even more options.

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Review by Doug Huffman See Profile
member for 4.5 years, 206 visits, last login: 11 days ago
updated 124 days ago

  • Washington Island,Door,WI
  • Contract price not specified.
  • "Availability, reliability, versatility"
  • "Dealer/installer third party network"
  • "Best for those with no alternatives"
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I live on an island, isolated, rural and impoverished. When I moved here, only dial-up was practically available, with a private microwave network just being installed. I rejected the microwave network for not wanting to be in series with another's problem.

When WB's $99 installation offer was made, I bit, only to discover that my installing dealer was a "non-participating" dealer that charged me $600 for a WB installation. It had to be redone, fortunately on warranty and not on my nickle.

I subscribed to their Pro Pack of 1.5 Mbps down and 17 GB volume limit for ~$90/mo and own my equipment still (no lease fee).

Wildblue has delivered precisely what was contracted. It took some time, a year or so, to learn that. I am a satisfied customer. That's the good.

The bad is their fulfillment network of installer/dealers. I have personal experience with two and both are not who I would contract given my druthers (that's as nicely as I can say it. Otherwise I'd be obscene, profane and this'd be deleted!)

The ugly is that I'm old enough to not slither around on my roof. I am charged miles from their shop (~100 miles round trip), ferry tariff, overnight accommodations, and the service fee, parts and labor - for shoddy work (his goddamn *Snap-on wrench is still on the ODU).

The WB employees that I have met are all fine people - Matt, Steve, Trevor and Marlene.

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lodged 131 days ago

  • Chicago,Cook,IL
  • Contract price not specified.
  • "They were extreeeemely prompt to get the equipment installed."
  • "I found out why they were so fast about it... To lock me in to an awful product before they lost their chance to take more money"
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WildBlue is absolutely awful... But worst than having a sub par product is
their >>disrespectable business practices
They DO NOT value their customers. I was lied to and not reimbursed in any
way, shape, or form.
Not only do they have no satisfaction guarantee, they don't really care if
you are satisfied anyway!
Think the price is too good to be true? IT IS! Shame on me for thinking I
could save a few bucks... Save yourself, and do it right--NOT with
WildBlue!!

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shortround

join:2011-10-30
Beloit, WI
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·WildBlue

Wildblue vs dial up vs hughesnet

I have had Wildblue now for almost four years. For the most part I am happy with it. There have been times of slow downs and occasionally no service but that doesn't happen very often and usually doesn't last long either.

I have internet by satellite because there is NO cable out where I live.
The companies don't want to run cables to where there might only be two or three homes hooked up. So for me it is either wildblue or hughsenet.

My dial up never runs faster then 24Kb. I checked out hughesnet about six months ago to make sure I was getting the best deal for my money and it was going to cost me the same monthly fee WITH a new 2 year contract so why switch?

Hughes rates the download bandwidth differently so it was a bit confusing, bare with me. IF I have it correctly, @ 350 MB per 24 hour period as your limit, that adds up to a 30 day limit of 10500 MB per month. For the same $80 per month Wildblue allows me 17000 MB with no 24 hour limit. That seems like a better deal to me.

For $110 per month hughes will allow you 2.0 MB per second which is faster and 13500 MB per month. That is a bit faster then wildblue download speed but still short of the maximum bandwidth and at $30 per month more money.

At least until some company runs truly high speed cable out here I must stay with Wildblue. When my grandkids come to visit I see my monthly allowance approach the bandwidth limit occasionally. If I was with Hughesnet it would be turned off on many occasions when Wildblue is still running.

If my grandkids want to download videos, I tell them to take their netbooks to McDonalds and do it there on somebody else' penny.

I do a lot of research via the net and I usually have 40-50% of my bandwidth allowance available.

Watching youtube videos will sometimes put me up to 80% of my allowance but with one day of inactivity it will drop to 60% so it is not a major inconvenience.

For the time being, wildblue is the best solution for me. But with speed of only 1.5M and 17000MB of limit per month cable would be a major improvement.

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(review was emailed from domain yahoo.com)
lodged 171 days ago

  • 90000
  • Contract price not specified.
  • "NOTHING!"
  • "FAP, Terrible speeds, etc."
  • "Wildblue needs to seriously rework their FAP."
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I am moving away to college in a few weeks, and before I do, I am going to convince my parents to drop our expensive $80 per month plan with wildblue. We were told that we would receive 10 times the speed we do, and that doesn't even include wildblue's FAP. FAP stands for fair action policy, and is in place to 'protect' all of wildblue's customers. What happens is if you reach 70% of your allotted bandwidth, wildblue throttles your speed down to such a slow speed that Google's homepage takes close to 20 seconds to load. Imagine that! Also wildblue lies about your bandwidth usage, and throttles your speed when you've only reached around 50% of what you pay for. Currently at $80 per month, we pay for 12 gb of download per month. The small amount we can reach before wildblue throttles our speed is astounding! I would LOVE to stream movies, however if I did I would quickly use up my bandwidth and have useless internet for the rest of the 30 rolling period. This would be if wildblue was even close to fast enough to stream videos! Before they throttle my speeds I can barely watch Youtube videos at 240p without having to pause the video and come back later. This is after DECREASING the quality of the video from the base 360p that Youtube offers.

Overall, I would say that Wildblue is a terrible ISP, and should only be bought if all you do is occasionally check your email, as doing more will likely invoke the wrath of Wildblue's FAP.

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EarthSignal
Earthsignal
Premium
join:2002-10-03
Burlington, IA
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·WildBlue

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Bit confused

Seems that many of your facts are a bit screwed up.

1. FAP stands for fair access policy not fair action policy

2. You get slowed down when you exceed 100% not 70%, but you remain in FAP mode till your usage falls below 70%.

3. If you pay $80. per month you should be allowed 17MB not 12MB. If you get 12MB download you must be on the middle package called Select Pak.

4. What activities may cause me to exceed a usage threshold?

Some activities are more likely to exceed the upload and/or download usage thresholds and cause speeds to be slowed under the Fair Access Policy. Several examples are listed below:

Full-length movie downloads
Unsecured wireless router
Heavy use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs
Continuous downloading or viewing streaming media content such as; online video and radio
Extended use of web cameras
Extensive downloading of large applications or files
Extensive uploading of home movies, photos, and/or large email attachments
Extensive use of online backup services such as Carbonite, Mozy, SOS and HP Upline.
»www.wildblue.com/fap/index.jsp
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Keenin

@wildblue.net

Re: Bit confused

I'm sorry, you're a bit confused. You're defending Wildblue as if it is a decent ISP. Then again you've apparently had it for 5 years. I'd go crazy if I had Wildblue for 5 years. I'm so sorry for you.

OneTwenty8

@wildblue.net

1992

Wow! You get a whole 17MB of downloads for the low price of $80! And I thought 12MB was a steal at that price. Oh wait, you made a mistake, like the OP who said "fair action policy" instead of "fair access policy". Give him a break.

Why so defensive for WB anyway?

DLG

@wildblue.net

WildBlue

I too signed up for Wild Blue. After years of DSL in town, I moved to a remote area where only satellite internet is available. I first signed up for the lowest package and quickly maxed out my download MB's. Also the speed was so incredibly slow I found it unbearable. I increased to the max package and now run around 70% of max downloads. That is if I keep my teenage daughter from downloading music and videos. I still find down loading web pages to take between 30 and 60 seconds. Slow is an understatement! if you have any other option for internet, take it! Satellite is a huge wast of money!
Mrkporky

join:2011-09-17
Okeechobee, FL

Wildblue Sucks

listen to this Idiot standing up for wild-blue which isn't worth a crap..I sell the crap......everyone now has access to cell towers go to sprint & sign up for an unlimited plan for $50 a month & get ride of wild-blue & send them packing...now that they got bought out may get better but I don't think so..

Chic

@navy.mil

Re: Wildblue Sucks

I have had Wild-blue for less than a year, and I absolutely hate them. I wish I didn't live in such a remote area that I needed them. As it turned out that metro cast came out and put a tower near our house, when I tried to cancel my plan with Wild-Blue, they said I owed them almost six hundred dollars for cancelling early! So I'm stuck with slow internet, and bad customer service! Whats even worse, is that the modem we are renting from them stopped working one day, and Wild-blue told me that they would charge me $90 just to come and look at it...NOT fix the damn thing! I just wonder how they are still in business.

Kiriel

@wildblue.net
Everyone does NOT have access to another form of internet. I live in a remote area and while I do hate the FAP and that I cannot get more than 17GB and think after 8 years they should get with the times -video size has increased drastically - they are better than dialup. Download speed isn't too bad - I download a lot of audio books. I can still play World of Warcraft - with lag but I still raid and have better DPS than some with cable internet. VPN is slow but I can still work remotely. Mostly YouTube works...except some hours I need to buffer too much.

If I had another choice I would take it, but I don't. I don't know why anyone would do satellite if they had another choice.....but I know some people who have tried wireless and found it slower and unable to play games and get dropped a lot.

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Review by stone_cold09 See Profile
member for 171 days, 0 visits, last login: 171 days ago
updated 171 days ago

  • Bowling Green,Pike,MO
  • Contract price not specified.
  • "Nothing Good it SLOW Like TURTLE"
  • "Download STOP U Files and Videos and Updates Windows 7 in small Amounts Mbs"
  • "THUMB DOWN on Wildblue ,, it in TRASH Can"

I Cant Do Anything else on Wildblue internet service,,,,, im on Pro plans as 17 GB download Right ?? But i Noticed that Pro Plans Stop u Download 5 MB From 20 MB that is WRONG!! ... Are u Going Watch Youtube Video for 15 Mins then Stop at 3 MINS That is WRONG! there is nothing FAP Hit ! Wildblue is Thumb Down ((BOO BOO BOO BOO))! I About Return to My Hughesnet Again and Trash Wildblue bec it my Freedom what i want to Do Download and Videos too Long ,, Wildblue Cant Tell me what i DO!! Wildblue is Not My Parent! At All we use wildblue about 2 months..... i Dont Care about Contracts it is not Worth at all!

Comments:
wirelessdog

join:2008-07-15
Queen Anne, MD
kudos:1

Wow.

When you graduate the third grade and can articulate better perhaps your review might have some merit.

stone_cold

@myvzw.com

Re: Wow.

hey i am not Good at English sense. as i am Adult Deaf Person Thank U Very much.. I M Wait for Viasat1 Launch into my Damn Wildblue Bec It is Very Important for me Video Phone with my Deaf Friends so Far i m Complain about Wildblue is no Good for Download and Videos Right Now it Freeze Up on Me... Please Delete this Graduate from Thrid Grade Sounds Like Rudes . i has Nothing to Do with Schools . Please Respectful to DEAF!!!

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