| Ahh memories (and they ain't good ones) I spent two years as a customer of Wildblue on Beam 29, Winnipeg Gateway. Nothing like having your monthly cap average reduced by 25% (and the bill did NOT go down), paying $70 a month for 1.5MB down (if you're lucky, 128Kbps if you were FAPped), and headbanging latency that rendered Flash and a lot of real-time applications useless.
Satellite is for the desperate, those who are landlocked in a mountain range with a window to the south, and for those with deep pockets and a LOT Of patience. Broadband it's NOT.
My providers, Waldron Communications, were very good. They did a good install and were easy to get hold of when needed. The problems with Wildblue were out of their control. |
