dadjlh Posted November 7, 2005 CID Share Posted November 7, 2005 Haven't posted much on this forum, but used it tremendously. Hate to leave it, but boy, Wild Blue, so far, is so much better. The FAP is almost nonexistent. The connection speed is 60 percent better and the download speed is 80 percent better. The upload speed is 400 percent better. The cost, compared to upgrading to the 7000 series, is less than half and the monthly cost is less. GET IT WHEN YOU CAN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fikester Posted November 11, 2005 CID Share Posted November 11, 2005 Think I will wait to see what happens after WB gets a few hundred thousand customers, just cant imagine them not being greedy enough to oversell the BW (as most ISP do). Please post back often about the WildBlue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraNsEdgE 01 Posted November 11, 2005 CID Share Posted November 11, 2005 What are your pings like , Can you do a trace route to Testmy.net and post it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted November 11, 2005 CID Share Posted November 11, 2005 its satnet. what do you think his pings are like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraNsEdgE 01 Posted November 11, 2005 CID Share Posted November 11, 2005 Should be bad, but i want to see trace route, cuz if it goes directly to the sattelite, wouldn't it be able to route back down with under a 1000 ms. Real good for gaming, get idsl instead of sattlelite anyday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted November 11, 2005 CID Share Posted November 11, 2005 under a 1000 ms good for gaming? for chess maybe. and people get satellite links if nothing else is available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwells248 Posted November 12, 2005 CID Share Posted November 12, 2005 A lot of WB users are seeing pings between 550 and 700 ms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted November 12, 2005 CID Share Posted November 12, 2005 which is par for the distance you're shooting the birds at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwells248 Posted November 12, 2005 CID Share Posted November 12, 2005 Yep. And Direcway is like a double bogey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraNsEdgE 01 Posted November 12, 2005 CID Share Posted November 12, 2005 Sop anybody who has satellite obviously doesn't play any games and can only surf and download really slow if alot of people are using line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkandra Posted November 12, 2005 CID Share Posted November 12, 2005 It is better than Dialup. This is the only Broadband that I can get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jared Posted November 12, 2005 CID Share Posted November 12, 2005 satellite is so icky. ICKY ICKY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadjlh Posted November 13, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 13, 2005 O.K. I'll post again, since my post is not locked anymore. Why was that? Anyway, my only choice in this rural area is satellite. DirecWay or (just recently) Wild Blue. FYI pinged to testmy.net was 609ms. Pinging using DirecWay to testmy.net was usually 823ms. Latency on games is less than DirecWay on pc games (H2) and xbox live (H2), but still not real good. You wouldn't always lose, but often enough. If you can host the game and it is on your server, you are good to go, otherwise, forget it. Downloads on DirecWay (DW6000 Consumer account) averaged around 85K. Downloads on WB (pro pak) averages 225K. Uploads on DW was 4K. Uploads on WB is 30K. Connections on DW was around 990K. WB is 1500K. FAP on DW was 169meg, WB is 22Gig per month. That's all I can tell you at this time, but my local WB provider (rural electric co-op) has asked me to keep DW for awhile to compare the two systems during inclement weather, so I might have additional data later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Fan Posted November 13, 2005 CID Share Posted November 13, 2005 That's pretty good. Wildblue looks great (for now), but I doubt that it will last forever. I'm sure that it will start getting slow soon when more people sign up. I heard that they had to close new installations on some beams (37?). Sorry if I sound negative. Sattelite internet will always suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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