said by Tige:Cramming people on the satellite(s) is what lead to traffic shaping which led to 1-2 sec latency which led to timeouts on secure sites, disconnected downloads and overall degradation of performance. Trying to listen to a 30 sec song preview on itunes or amazon is many times an exercise in futility now.
Prior to wildblue doing this the ping times where in the 400-600 hundred range which made most internet activities doable. Wildblue even reached out to gamers saying they where doing all they can to make most internet game types playable.
Since the infamous firmware update a few years ago wildblue has acted as if their customers have no other choice, caps on speed and data with pricing plans that are over even the most expensive dsl or cable data plan. Unfortunately they are right, we don't have another choice.
Going to hit the post button now and hope I don't time out
Good times. I can play a game of halo on my DW300 (I think the model)
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