I had satellite for 2 and a 1/2 years before moving back to Dallas in May. If you get satellite, go ahead and get yourself a dial up as well for backup purposes. As Major Stress mentioned, I used dial up 85% of the time because my satellite was constantly going up and down. Maybe I just had a bad experience with Hughes...
If I had a choice between DSL & Satellite, that is not a hard choice for me. Take DSL.
SirMoby, it's the same as any other internet, you can download/upload, and the speeds are decent (compared to dialup) when it works right.