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RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 14 8:05 pm Post subject: Satellite internet
Does anyone use satellite internet? How are you finding it? Does the high ping time make a big difference to usability? I know when out current internet is running badly the pings are around 200ms, the sat is said to have 600ms pings.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 14 10:07 pm Post subject:
I'm not speaking from personal experience only from what people who've used satellite Internet have told me. Performance isn't great as latency is a big issue.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 14 1:03 pm Post subject:
Thats my worry. Would be nice to actually get info from someone that is using it now.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 14 3:28 pm Post subject:

RichardW wrote:

Thats my worry.

Would be nice to actually get info from someone that is using it now.

The few I know who used didn't do so for very long.

Piggyphile

Joined: 02 Apr 2009
Posts: 891
Location: Galicia

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 14 3:49 pm Post subject:
I have it here (Spain). Phone calls to UK through skype have a short lag which you do get used to as it just means breathing between sentences. My husband uses it to talk to work (also in UK) using the hangouts on Google plus with a webcam and he doesn't have any noticeable lag. No other choice here as no masts in this area.

Paul Sill

Joined: 16 Jan 2009
Posts: 118

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 14 9:11 pm Post subject:
I have had it for about 18 months, Just got to watch data usage and its quite expensive but its better than dial up. No good for on line gaming but I have watched hours of youtube videos with no problems.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 14 7:33 am Post subject:
For the package price wise its dearer than land line but closely comparable to mobile internet costs. For over data usage its cheaper than mobile internet by a long way.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 14 10:10 am Post subject:
We use they at the hotel for the guest internet. The ping rates are terrible. On the hotel ADSL we get 1.5mb down and .5mb up and it works loads better than the Satellite Internet 20mb down and 10mb up and it's all down to the ping rate. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

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