High speed satellite connection

[Papa]

Who's the best company that can offer unlimited high speed satellite internet connection ?

Thanks

[Timbo]

I would like to know as well. Just in case I ever decide to live in the mountains, or on a tropical island

[QuickDraw]

The only one I know of is DirecTV who now outsources their internet service through HughesNet and its expensive as hell. On the bright side, you can get DSL just about everywhere now.. we've even got some local microwave based shit now.

[Linkster]

Do yourself a favor and find a different solution - the advertised speeds (even on the biz class satellites with the huge dish) are way off - you're lucky if you get a tenth of the speed - and remember that they cap how much bandwidth you can use in a day

[Simon]

A dream for years has been to create a mobile base to work from. Touring the USA and Canada by motorhome while still getting work done no matter where I choose to roam. I've kept an eye on the satellite phone and satellite internet offerings but still haven't found anything that would make me feel confident I could make it work everywhere. (And I don't want to get started on how the FCC screws with developers trying to improve things.)

"Unlimited high-speed internet" via satellite (or cell) is a claim I see made but it's not real for satellite connections yet, and the limitations Linkster mentions are true unfortunately. Even my alternate dream of leaving an island paradise for life in a remote mountain cabin is being hampered/slowed by no good choices for high-speed connections.

[Papa]

Of course my point is, to work anywhere i wish. No problems, no bugs

[Papa]

Originally Posted by QuickDraw

The only one I know of is DirecTV who now outsources their internet service through HughesNet and its expensive as hell. On the bright side, you can get DSL just about everywhere now.. we've even got some local microwave based shit now.

Wow cost a lot !
And it's slow....

Damn it

[Ramster]

Before I moved to online full time we sold LincSat here in Canada which provides internext via satellite. It has come way down in price here the past few years but it is not the best service. When it came out it was like $1500-1800 and $129 a month or something.

As Linkster said everything is capped. I've read about other webmasters in the US using satellite internet and hating it.

[Jim]

When I had a camper, I looked into something really nice that was built for a boat. The equipment itself was about $5k and I don't remember the monthly charges. But, I think a lot of the cost was the ability to track the satellite while moving.

Good luck on your quest.

[swedguy]

Level 421 has a lot of different satellite solutions.

http://www.level421.com/

[Useless]

Originally Posted by QuickDraw

The only one I know of is DirecTV who now outsources their internet service through HughesNet

Hughes owns DirecTv.

Sorry, that's all I have.

[cd34]

I believe Chop uses DirectWay Satellite internet for his connectivity. If you do a lot of ssh (secure telnet), then satellite isn't going to be enjoyable. ICQ, email, surfing is all ok because of the packet based nature, but, the latency is going to be high. I don't think you could use services like XBox live, World of Warcraft, etc because of the high latency. I also think that vonage/callvantage/skype, etc would also not work well over satellite.

Depending on where you are and how remote you get, there is also GPRS/Edge service through cell providers. Again, these companies don't understand the word 'unlimited' so, you'll find these to be somewhat costly. I believe http://b2b.vzw.com/productsservices/wirelessinternet/ does work pretty well. Cleo has had some experience with it.

Dialup & using your cell phone as a modem also work but are usually limited speeds. But, you can't be as 'remote'.

For even more remote, vsat services do work, but are very expensive. Like Jim said, the expense of those units is the positioning. However, Hughes does manufacture a 'flat' dish that can be mounted on a rooftop so that you can get satellite TV on cars. I believe you're looking at a few thousand for that + service. There are other solutions. Remember that satellite only covers a portion of the world with a signal, so, you might need multiple service providers depending on where you travel.

I believe GPRS/Edge probably holds the best chance of giving you what you want, but, its not unlimited. Coverage is pretty good -- including the caribbean, parts of Mexico, a good chunk of Canada. If you used signal strength to determine how far off the beaten path you wanted to go, you could still get relatively decent internet connections.

[Linkster]

Just to give an example of the Hughes/Directv connections - I was paying for their highest speed two way connection business line - D/Ls ran about 300k and the uploads were actually slower than a 56k modem (around 30k was the best I ever got) - if I did anymore than a free site and maybe two galleries worth of content, as well as the standard daily updates etc, I was capped off till 24 hours later

This was with their big dish that cost an arm and a leg - they also made me sign a statement that I wouldnt try to play with the thing as I evidently could bring down a small plane with it
I have looked at the systems for an RV and again it boils down to where you get the service - unfortunately Hughes subs are all going to suck in my opinion

[blazi]

Originally Posted by swedguy

Level 421 has a lot of different satellite solutions.

http://www.level421.com/

says nothing there about their pricing though?