Originally Posted by TheSaint

Satellite Internet is usally worse than dialup. DirectPC is total garbage, when it works. The other one, Starband has less users forums but is not a whole lot better. You get tech support in India, outages whenever its cloudy, 1 second delays on every character, and an upload speed about 1/2 dialup if you are lucky.

Best of all if you download a couple hundred megs they slow you to sub-dialup speed for 24 hours.

I'm moving shortly to an area with no broadband yet. Since WIldblue is supposed to go live in September (Wildblue=new satellite technology that should probably work) I've opted to install 2 dialups until then, yuck.

The only other option is commercial satellite service, it works, buts its around $500 a month for a 256K up/down unlimited service. And the dish costs 5 grand. I may have to go that way if wild blue doesn't deliver.