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Originally Posted by Furious_Female
Our last house in NY was in a rural area, too far away for DSL and no cable available. My only option was DirecWay satellite. On a good day, I wished for dial up. On a bad day, I couldn't even use the internet. Snow, rain, clouds, a humming bird hovering over the dish all cause it to go out.
Then, they cap your bandwidth to 169MB in a 3 hour stretch and no more than 22 TCP connections open simultaneously. Your upload speed will be around 2kb/sec. Downloading is not bad but again, they cap your bandwidth usage. When you get capped, its usually for 24 hours or more and they reduce your bandwidth down to NOTHING. Literally, 0.02kb/sec up and down.
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I think that was your provider's fault. Satellite connection doesn't suck so much, its mostly the provider who sucks. Nothing beats satellite in speed when its done right, the only bad thing is the ping, for www surfing.