Sadly Wildblue is not any better. I have come to the conclusion that satellite internet in general sucks balls!!! Basically with Wildblue you get a more consistent download, but then they stick it to you on the latency!!!
It doesn't matter what time or what day of the week it is your pings will never look any better than that.
Pinging yahoo.com [216.109.112.135] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1188ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1441ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1422ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1329ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1250ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1197ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1539ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1148ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1267ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1470ms TTL=49
Ping statistics for 216.109.112.135:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1148ms, Maximum = 1539ms, Average = 1325ms