Anyone using Satellite Broadband?

Jimathy · 4 Jul 2007 at 16:48

Anyone here using satellite broadband?

A client of mine will most likely never get broadband in its current form and is starting to look at satellite as the only viable option.

Just wondered if anyone here has any experiences/recommendations?

Cheers.

233 · 4 Jul 2007 at 16:49

iirc its obscenely and prohibitvely expensive, I thought this had more or less died out with the boom of adsl

Trifid · 4 Jul 2007 at 16:55

There is occasionally an LLU available where BTW don't go: http://www.samknows.com/broadband/search.php

What is his budget? If it is a few thousand then a leased line is your best bet.

Jimathy · 4 Jul 2007 at 17:03

LLU is probably 10 years away in this part of the world (Torcross, Devon). Not sure a leased line is in the budget to be honest.

svbooga · 4 Jul 2007 at 17:11

Hi

One of our customers in Ireland went Satellite broadband for about a year. Very expensive, high latency and though it was meant to be a 2Mb link they rarely got more than 256k if they were lucky. Also, if they went over their download allowance they were instantly cut off until the end of the month. In the end they went back to their isdn line until they got a wireless broadband package with a local ISP.

Trifid · 4 Jul 2007 at 17:12

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange.php?ecode=WWTORX And MAX ADSL.

(Unless that is not the exchange.

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No harm in getting a quote for 2Mb: http://www.enta.net/index.php?id=246 (Unless you know that a few thousand a year plus another few thousand installation is too much.)

http://www.webhostchat.co.uk/forums/archive/index.php/t-5631.html (Was for a 10Mb line, but they are located very closely to one of their PoP's.