Sattelite Broadband,anyone use it?

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Originally Posted by Stuuu

especially during heavy rain.

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i used to get bandwidth for my isp on sat bandwidth direct from a US supplier until the war in the middle east caused the military to take all the satellite bandwidth... and the au $ fell to 55 cents so became non-viable as you had to pay for it in US$

dish size is your friend...

anything under 2m was an utter waste of time even with a top of the range lnb if you want to sustain decent bandwidth in heavy cloud cover up this way, was my experience.

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Originally Posted by incisor

i used to get bandwidth for my isp on sat bandwidth direct from a US supplier until the war in the middle east caused the military to take all the satellite bandwidth... and the au $ fell to 55 cents so became non-viable as you had to pay for it in US$

dish size is your friend...

anything under 2m was an utter waste of time even with a top of the range lnb if you want to sustain decent bandwidth in heavy cloud cover up this way, was my experience.

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1.8m dish, 4W BUC and decent LNB (BUC & LNB come from JNC). Rx is fine we just have a Tx issue. Link Budget shows 1.8m dish should be OK in that config.

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Originally Posted by Disco300Tdi

Which plan did you decide on with Activ8, Ferno ?

We were with them before moving across the state, now with Aussiebroadband which is also Govt funded satellite.

No lock in contract
Half price first 6 months
3 email addys
24/7 support

99% of the ISP's use the IPSTAR satellite.

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We went with the 9 gb (3g/9g) 3during peak and 9 off peak,anything over not charged just speed drop,as mentioned elsewhere,not much difference price wise,just looked over what was available ,compared and came up with what we have,all set up and running ,tis much faster than the crappy snail speed of dial up,yes there is the delay but loading times are much better,downloaded AVG anti virus on wed nite,dialup time would have taken the better half of three hours,downloaded in five minutes via new b/band,google earth now runs instead of tripping over itself,computer not glitching as much during internet work now that signal can keep up with 'puta :)