Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
 ·WildBlue
 ·TDS
| reply to bobcat698
Re: Has Satellite Internet gotten any better in the last 5 yrs?
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hey tell us we have to put up a 50-60 ft tower to get wireless internet.. Sucks
Look at it this way - you are a lot closer to decent Internet than a lot of people who don't even have that option.
See what your local zoning is like and how difficult it would really be to put up such a tower. Here for example if one is attached to your house it falls under a "tv" tower which people used to use for old tv antennas and is pretty easy to do, but a larger tower requires a lot such as a $20/foot deposit that has to be maintained as long as the tower is up with the govt.
Still, I'd definitely look at the option of putting up a tower to get wireless. It would provide a night and day difference to satellite in terms of how fast the service feels and how responsive it is.
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BTW, I do have Dish Network already, so I can probably get some package deal with that..
My personal experience with dish network has been gross incompetence and unhelpful customer support. (the same has unfortunately been true for DirecTV.) If you have a good local installer, than never mind (because it all comes down to how good the person actually doing the install is) but in general I would try and get a satellite internet installer who focuses on satellite internet. When I got my wildblue installed I got it through an NRTC co-op and I appreciated how well they did the install compared to the tv-installers who do not seem to pay much attention to the details and their customer service who seem not to care. This has just been my personal experience, so I do not mean to insult the installers here who install both internet and tv -- just seems the tv giants have too many installers on their payroll who don't give a darn if the customer is happy when they leave.
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