Ciaran

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Basically I live out in the sticks and the download speed is awful.
We recently got Netflix and it quite often stops while trying to stream films?
It has been put down to our location and the old copper wiring.

I currently only have a phone line just for the Internet. The cost of satellite broadband is pretty similar to the cost of my line rental+broadband. Question is has anybody got it and is it any good?

urban

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No, but a customer I dealt with several years ago had satellite BB.
Was reasonable, but not stable.

JackClark

Looked into it, the main issue will be your data allowance, very expensive when you go over.

boxst

It may have got better from when I looked at it a few years ago: The speed was great but the ping times terrible. That meant that the whole experience appeared slow as browsing the web means multiple requests for images etc..

I guess for streaming movies it would be fine.

Just did a quick Google search and the prices are very high. £99/month for 50gb.

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

I don't need 50gb. 10gb of dowload is plenty and I'm only looking at 8mb download speed. Currently get 600kb download speed

boxst

Are you sure 10gb is plenty? One movie on Netflix is about 1gb ....

Ant

I used to install tooway, the ping is shocking so if you rely Xbox live or ps3 don't bother.

If you plan on using Netflix 10gb will not be enough.

The dishes are very finely aligned and if not done correctly will lose sync in bad weather.

Ant

With 4G around the corner I would wait IMO

BlkKnight

I may be out of date on this.

Isn't your upload traffic still sent over the phone?

boxst

No, that was only one variant of satellite to try and alleviate some of the (terrible) ping times. The only ones that are left (as far as I know) are two way satellite transmission.

CREWJ

I looked into it when I was in a poor internet area. It's far too expensive for what you get. You will go over 10Gb in no time.

TonyBurns

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Oh no, bin that idea
Your issues for the UK are:-

Satellite uses higher frequency bands
Higher frequency bands are more suseptable to interference from atmospheric conditions (rain/fog/cloud/solar flares etc).
Its not cheap.
Delay is a killer.

You are far better off petitioning BT to get fttc

Tony

IanPaskin

used to have it many years ago before broadband, i'm sure it is better now but mine was download only so your requests were going via dial up and it would return via satellite but it was a queue system so your download might start an hours later... mine was with europe online, the only good thing was someone hacked the download program so you would receive all requests from the satellite not just your own, used to get 10-15 films perday and tons of mp3's,