Morning all
Ive been looking again at satellite broadband. I live in Northern Ireland and my broadband speed is poor 0.5meg😂
Is anyone using broadband everywhere this satellite company is offering satellite internet using a sky dish 28.2e any help or advice on this subject would be much appreciated.
Cheers
If your considering running a server with it bud then i think from memory when this has been posted before that there is too much lag using a satellite broadband connection for it to work.....
I just need faster broadband not for a server just for general use downloading streaming etc. Can't cope with slow broadband anymore
Hefty setup costs
QuoteYou can either buy the equipment up front for £300 + £150 installation, or have it included in the package price for first 36 months.
Onwave and Tooway are other satellite providers.
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They all probably use a dedicated dish though (as far as i'm aware, 75cm to 1.2m depending on location) with an iLNB.
Something similar to this:
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satellite broadband is not in real time, you may need to use a fetch file to download content so there is a wait for this to happen, therefor not good for anything but downloading content, that is what i found when using some yrs ago, unless they have lightning speed now.
According to them the latency problem still exists but from their blurb, they have employed "measures" to counteract this,
QuoteAll internet connections suffer from some latency and because a satellite connection requires the signal to travel from the ground to the satellite and back again, this imposes a "satellite latency" of approximately half a second. However, we employ a variety of means to mitigate the effects of this delay, so it does not adversely affect normal use of the Broadband Everywhere connection. The only exception is online gaming which satellite broadband is not suitable for.
What these measures are, I don't know.
I too have shite speeds and was looking into this as an alternative to my superfast 1.5-2mb connection (on a good day).
I'd be interested to hear opinions from anyone who is currently on satellite broadband and how they rate it.
For those who are desperate, try mobile tethering, most providers can give 8mb or more on all you can eat plans,
how to mobile tethering, http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how…id-windows-phone-3441165/
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