Viasat Satellite → [Exede] How much data is possible on Exede

This thread is a response to another used in the forums asking me if i was paid off by Via-sat for saying how much data you could get so with out further ado.

This is how much i'v gotten in 31 days.

Abyss1992, as I tried to point out, I was joking. You are posting some "impressive" download numbers (10-50 GB per night) for satellite Internet. As you suggested, you are probably better off with a different type of ISP if you want to keep downloading that much.

Edit: To try to answer your question, refer here: »www.viasat.com/broadband ··· e-system , and then do the math. Someone please do the math.

Well I am not sure of the math you are referring to but if it is the theoretical amount you can download, I have done this many times so here goes. I get around 1.9 MB/s actual download speed so that is the speed I am going to use. This would translate to an advertised speed of 15.2 Mb/s.

There are 5 hours in the LNFZ so that would be 18000 seconds in a night so at 1.9 MB/s times 18000 equals 34.2 GB per night times 30 equals 1026 GB per month just in the LNFZ. Now if you take into account the modem having an occasional brain fart and the fact that there is about a billion different things that can affect any given download's actual speed and that you are not going to consistently see that speed and the fact that you are probably not going to be there to babysit it constantly and you will have time from one download to another then you can figure 1/4 or less of that is going to be a real number so I would go with about 200 to 300 GB a month possible with the DAP limit and the LNFZ included in that number. If you are a real sit on the keyboard and watch the progress type of person then that number could go as high as 500 to 700 GB in a month I suppose.

Myself, I don't see the point in that much downloaded myself. I used to be a guild leader on EverQuest and had 2 to 3 computers on the game for 6 to 12 hours a night and downloaded all the patches as was needed and we got by just fine on HN with 500 MB a day limit long before they had the free time. I occasionally watch a movie on Dish on Demand now that I have 15 GB per month but that's less than one movie per month because honestly, I would rather own them. The only reason I even rent one on Dish is because I either don't have the money at the time to purchase it or it is one that I am not sure if I will like or not so I watch it first. That save me money on a few movies like District 9 LOL.

I'v pushed this connection to 2.7MB/s and I'v always been data hungry when I had HN i would get about 2.5GB a night at one point during the end of the contract the modem started going out when I was browsing heavy.

I'v crashed 1.5MB/s cable and DSL connections at hotels.

I do plan on moving soon and im going with Suddenlink and a 50Mb package

I think that Abyss has answered his/her own question with prior posts. (I'd be concerned about my SurfBeam 2 melting if I tried to get that much sustained data through it.)

The math that I briefly posted was how bad it could get assuming that the system was functioning perfectly and everyone was using it at once for a sustained period of time, but then I realized that wasn't the question being asked. Thanks for doing the "correct" calculation.

What question was I asking? and I'v gone through 3 Netgear wireless N USB adapters and 2 Linksys wireless N routers also 1 SB2 modem lasted 9 months. »www.amazon.com/dp/B00962 ··· 096239G0

This is the router im getting when I move.

Heh, I have went through routers simply by either age or defect but the only modem I have had replaced was a generation 1 HN9000 because of a glitch it came out with and even then it took longer for that problem to show up for me than it did for a lot of other people.

"In-orbit costs per Gbyte only a fraction of even the newest satellites in orbit"

"More – and cheaper – bits in space"

Let's see, 2005's basic package is still 10 GigaBytes...in 2013...despite higher usage today via cable/dsl/etc users.

Chances are, your rural home is not fully grounded, a good power supply is not being used, and your electric provider has spikes blasting your equipment.