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Satellite Internet Access - Questions!!!
I've just emigrated to Malta. Living in hotel with fam until we secure a house. Have found a house I really want BUT it is too remote to get cable broadband access. I cant work on dial-up, obviously, so I was wondering if there are alternatives (satelite maybe).
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a special gadget I can get for my laptops? Cheers ![]() |
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Satellite isn't good for work, because ping sucks. Even though speed rocks. What about wi-fi? Any provider in that area?
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yeah dude satelite usually has hella packet loss and can often be unreliable
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Or, if dial-up is possible there, DSL should be, too. Or if there are good mobile phones operators, UMTS, HSDPA, wireless connections(PCMCIA card). They go up to 3,6Mbit over here, check how it is on Malta.
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satellite internet was a good idea in theory but really sucks
its a bit faster than dialup and less reliable
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Satelite Sucks Ass.
You will not be happy. Just when you need it the most, WHAM! No response. Try and get DSL, or don't move. |
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Don't move is right. I live in a brand new built house with no DSL or cable. Satellite is TERRIBLE. If I knew that cable wasn't an option, I would have never built this house here.
Even my cell signals are crappy here too. So I'm stuck with satellite. ![]() |
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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. The latency is unbearable, especially for surfing and loading pages with a lot of images or security (SSL/encryption). On top of all those wonderful things, you get to pay twice as much as DSL or cable! ![]()
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Eventually satalite will take over, so I would help the process speed up and sign up. they need more customers to grow and actually be reliable.
The more satellites the more redundancy and speed, reliability, ect... |
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