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I have been looking at these for a long time and am holding out for WildBlue. I heard that both DirectWay and StarBand have had financial problems and have been sued for performance that is substantially less than promised. DISH Network was an investor in Starband and got out of it. I just didn't feel comfortable investing ~$1k for a service that many people are dissatisfied with. WildBlue uses better technology, spot beams, where they can dedicate satellite channels to specific regions which should give better performance. WB is supposed to arrive in our area 2Q so I'll be giving it a try.
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If you have to VPN or play multiplayer games satellite service isn't a good option either. Some VPN clients are better than others but the slow latency on sat links causes problems with those applications.
For lots of us there are no other options. My dial-up speed on a good day is a whopping 21.6 kbs. We're on a shared microwave link with dozens of others and it will be years before we get cable or DSL (if ever).
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The cellular service where we live is poor to nonexistent, but for fun I called Verizon about it. They said they do not allow cellular modems to connect to their system as a primary internet connection due to bandwidth constraints.
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North Plains? Howdy Neighbor! We really wanted to buy and build on a lot there on Dairy Creek road but the seller would only sell if we bought both his tax lots and one of them was awful. Argh.
Anyway, my cell phone won't work well at the house unless I walk up to the top of the driveway and the weather is just right but I'll check it out. Maybe a better antenna would do the trick. Thanks a bunch for the link.
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metastable, are you on West Oregon Electric? If so you probably know about Columbia Broadband, where they are slowly rolling out broadband service on fiber to the areas they serve. They published a projected service map and, wouldn't you know it, they are planning service to everyone around us but the map has a hole in it where we live. No service for us. Aw, heck, that is 10 years out anyway.
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Tom, I didn't know about the WiFi solutions, thanks for the link! I don't have a line of site, but I could probably knock down a couple of trees and get one. That, or get creative with antennas. Our south view is down a valley almost right into Banks.
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