July 21, 2008
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High Speed (?) BroadBand Connection
Last summer and for the past three weeks, I have been using WildBlue Satellite service from up here in the North Woods. The service never has been satisfactory - I'm used to Cable broadband in Florida.
I could have lived with the slower speed - supposedly 1.5M as opposed to the 6-7M speed I'm used to, but the speed seldom reached 1.5M - mostly around a third or forth of that and the dish had trouble staying locked on the satellite - never mind it was aimed across a lake and that the Dish Network dish right beside it never has any trouble. Multiple Service calls with surly techs who tended to blame me never did resolve the problems. To add insult to injury, I had to pay for 12 consecutive months even though the system was not accessible for eight months of the year.Well, now AT&T, Sprint and Verizon all offer cellular broadband at cheaper prices. To make the story short, today I signed up with Verizon, plugged the tiny modem into my MacBook Pro and am in business- at a true 1.4M - much faster than I ever got from the satellite. Also this works all over the country.
Does anyone want to buy a slightly used satellite modem and dish - complete with WildBlue software and a two-way horn? Cheap.
Comments (3)
don't want a dish, got an extra dishnetwork one right now myself. If your verizon works as well as my att does you will certainly love the convience of having it with you where ever you go. Kinda funny story, I switched over to att uverse service at home, this is tv, internet and phone and with that came a new wireless gateway/router. so i had to call att to cancel my old dsl service, same company but still couldn't cancel or change over, and i asked them how i send the dsl modem back and they said, well you've had it for over 30 days its yours to keep and my thought was, i have no need for it, can't you take it back and refurbish it and give it to someone else on dsl service. but i guess they just want me to toss it out. can i send it to you to put with your dish and modem?
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