Some of you may know that I live so far out in the sticks that I have not had access to high speed internet for 7 years or so. Welp, I finally got rid of dial up and got satellite internet through Hughes Net. Not as fast as the cable modem at work but soooo much better than dial up. And I also have WiFi through out the entire house now, which means I can surf the forum on my iPod. Woot!
Side note: I actually downloaded the Avenger’s Trailer yesterday (20 megs). Still took about 10 minutes or so but I could never do that on DU.
I was at a hotel and needed a 256MB file and the download time was going to be an two and a half hours!!! I had my wife get it for me at work to pull out the two files I needed. When I got home I downloaded the file and it took about 5 min.
It certainly ain’t the fastest and I won’t be streaming any Netflix movies any time soon but downloading a 256 meg file in 2 hours would be awesome considering you could never finish the download on dial up. Now checking email at home is a 20 second task rather than a 1-2 minute task. I’ll take it. For now.
I went through the same transition a few years back. Satellite internet was great til we got a heavy rainstorm or snow (which you probably don’t have to worry about). We had satellite for 3 years or so, then our extremely tiny cable co. finally offered internet service. I jumped on it…much faster and cheaper than satellite.
Uhg, I used this about 5 years ago to work from home, highest teir service and it sucked. it was slow (although fast compared to dial up it’s true) Down was slow up was even slower. and if it snowed or rained heavily or a deer or dog walked in front of the dish I lost signal. I always worried about the microwave transmission warnings on the thing to. I had a fence about 2 feet from the dish to keep critters from cooking themselves. probably paranoid but it’s what they recomended at the time.