Satallite broadband
20 August 2007, 03:20 PM
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Satallite broadband
I live in an area where the fastest connection I can receive is 0.5 meg. Does anyone have any experience of satallite broadband?
20 August 2007, 03:26 PM
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I do, using it now. We live in Spain and it's very popular here because of the terrain. You can have problems from time to time, normally weather issues like thick cloud and VOIP can have latency (delays) but on the whole pretty good. We have 2Mb connections and pay 39 Euros a month...about £25.
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20 August 2007, 09:13 PM
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[you;re very polite though - i was expecting a flaming for that!
20 August 2007, 09:25 PM
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Hello
Satellite broadband is okay but slow. You get great contiguous down speed but any requests take a long time to make.
So downloading a large file from, say, Microsoft is pretty good. General web browsing is a little painful, torrents are awful. This was my experience from a couple of years ago when I was playing with the technology, it may have changed but I doubt it.
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Satellite broadband is okay but slow. You get great contiguous down speed but any requests take a long time to make.
So downloading a large file from, say, Microsoft is pretty good. General web browsing is a little painful, torrents are awful. This was my experience from a couple of years ago when I was playing with the technology, it may have changed but I doubt it.
Steve
20 August 2007, 10:17 PM
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Yep a bit crap really. A few of our customers at work have "had" Satellite broadband but they also found it slow and when possible moved to normal land line ADSL.
As already said, general browsing is where you notice the difference (slower) and you often get latency delays.
As already said, general browsing is where you notice the difference (slower) and you often get latency delays.
20 August 2007, 11:36 PM
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Thanks for your comments. I was rather hoping you would all say it was fantastic and would solve all my problems. One day soon.....maybe 
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