| Author | Message | ||
     Odie |
All- my email address is changing, hopefully for the last time, as I've gotten rid of our Wildblue satellite internet. It sucked. New addy is: odiehawkdriver@gmail.com | ||
| Redwing |
Odie, I was thinking of hooking my parents up with Wild Blue thru Direct TV, what were the issue you had with their service? Thanks Redwing | ||
| Odie |
Redwing- I live just far enough out that they won't run cable all the way down our road and I'm like 1000' too far from the hub for DSL. My only alternative (at the time) was WildBlue or HughesNet. It seemed OK at first but waaay slower than my cable internet I had just given up by moving to the country. The speed has slowed down significantly since we got it a year ago. Yes, I use all the latest and greatest to keep the computer clean of trash, etc. They ran a diagnostics and said all was fine. I think an even bigger issue for me was the 50MB limit during a floating 30 day period. Do you know how fast you can use up 50 megs of bandwidth? I was on probation all the time. Especially with two kids in high school doing homework, etc. Now I use my Sprint aircard in my laptop and have since gotten a USB aircard for the desktop. We get a real deep discount thru the company I work for with Alltel so I got the Alltel one instead of Sprint. I can see three towers from my house (we live on a hill so that helps) so a good signal is not a problem. My Sprint card will give DSL a run for it's money speed-wise. Plus it's unlimited up and downloads. I am going to sell the WildBlue gear soon. I have two dishes, a left and a right Trea and the modem and all the cabling. Let me know if you have more questions. Good luck. | ||
| Froggy |
Oh god you had satellite internet? I would shoot myself and get dialup instead... | ||
| Redwing |
You guys are giving me pause, my parents dial up is brutally slow. It is usually around 18k, I've never seen it higher than 26k. They live in the middle of the woods in Northern Michigan and will have line of sight issues with trees for the satellite. Maybe I should investigate the Alltel aircard more thoroughly. Does anyone know if the cell phone signal can be improved with an outside antenna? Redwing | ||
| Froggy |
Redwing it would depend on if the aircard has an antenna port. From there its a matter of getting the right antenna. | ||
| Cruisin |
Redwing - it depends on how much you want to spend. You can get a repeater that has an external antenna for mounting outside and a long cable. $250 for one type (GSM OR CDMA) or $350 for both types (GSM AND CDMA). If there's at least an okay signal outside (one or two bars) then these help. If there's no signal to begin with, there's nothing to repeat. The nice thing is that if you get the dual repeater, when you visit your cell phones will get better service too. | ||
| Snowscum |
No fixed wireless around(WISP)? |
