 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | Better than HughesNet.. I have experience with HughesNet and Wild Blue sounds like a much better deal. I know I'd get fapped if I downloaded a 150-200MB chunk of anything on HughesNet, which ticked me off.
At least Wild Blue gives you a decent chunk up front. If I *had* to get Satellite (which would be if I had no other choice at all), I'd go with them.
Hopefully, ViaSat makes the caps better and not worse.
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| I'm a former WB customer -- they're fine for what they are as long as you don't need to download pages that are real-time sensitive. A lot of flash applications simply won't load because the latency is terrible.
And then there's that 7.5G cap thing. TERRIBLE, terrible, terrible if you have a family. |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by ShellMMG:I'm a former WB customer -- they're fine for what they are as long as you don't need to download pages that are real-time sensitive. A lot of flash applications simply won't load because the latency is terrible. And then there's that 7.5G cap thing. TERRIBLE, terrible, terrible if you have a family. Well Hughesnet cap is actually worse. 200 MB a day which is 6000 MB a month and that's upload and download combined. the 7.5 GB on WB is for download only. Now Hughesnet does have cap free time from 2 Am-7 Am EST. That's something WB needs to implement before I'd suggest them to friends that live in area where only dial-up is available. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | "very low usage caps"? "very low usage caps"? Talk about editorializing. The WB caps are much bigger than the cap on Verizon or Sprint wireless broadband, the only choices besides satellite available in my area, or in most locations where WB has costumers.
Verizon and Sprint are both at 5GB. We're not big bandwidth hogs at my house, but even we exceed that.
Please stop applying criteria appropriate to DSL/cable/fiber to satellite. They're two very different services, serving different customers bases. |
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Re: Better than HughesNet.. I tryed wildblue on couple of my neighbors and I'm glad that I have Hughesnet
375MB a day
If I get fap. I can call in tech and release me from fap once a month.
If I wanna download 2650.0 MB file. I can do it 2am to 7am
Megaupload download manager has configuration that will allow it to download during those times. which is great for me
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