Anybody know any thing about satellite internet? Cost, equipment, providers’ etc.
Not all RV parks have wireless so I was wondering about a satellite setup.

Thanks

 

I checked on satellite internet about a year ago. They wanted $650 for the equipment and $59.99 per month. In the same breath they informed me that the satellite has a " slight delay" over a landline broadband connection. As much as I hate the phone company that starts with a V I think I'll stick with my $29.99 per month dsl.

 

DirecTV has one. DirectWay or something like that. Something like $59.00 a month plus equipment last time I looked.

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$60 a month wouldn't be bad. I would pay more than that for a land line. Equipment seems kinda high.

Can you get a signal anywhere?

 

We just got dish network and they hope to have satellite internet to us by the end of the year. Prices haven't been released yet. Anything to get rid of the cable company that starts with a C.

 

We have Dish Network. From what I've heard, you can't hook your laptop up to it. Everything is on the TV and it doesn’t work like a computer set up. I could be wrong but that’s what I heard.

 

I don't know. I was recovering the morning that the satellite guy got here so everything is still a blur. I do remember him saying that they hope to have it here to us by the end of the year. I run cable modem at my house and we have the satellite running through our existing cable lines so it won't be to hard for me.

 

I'll call Dish and see what they can tell me.

 

If you have a choice run very fast in the opposite direction of satellite internet! It's overpriced and is vastly inferrior to cable/dsl. As spunbearing said, there will be a delay in your signal. I'd also add that your signal will be out a LOT more often than cable.

I've used Time Warner cable for the past 4 years or so. Best money I've ever spent. It's $50/month. Equipment was free. I can count on one hand the number of times it has been down in FOUR years. Simply amazing. Not to mention I have downloaded at up to 3mb/sec before on it.

 

Before I got cable here at my house, I looked into getting a satellite modem. The price was $599 for equipment alone. I don't remember what the monthly fee was. I called a local installer and discussed the modems with them. He told me that their company (a satellite installer) stopped selling and installing the modems. I asked why and I was told there was some reliability issues and he was tired of hearing customers complain.
Tom

 

Same here Mn Tom. Had a long talk with the DirectTv people about possible internet service.....nada, zippo. Cable? Not for many years in my area. 25 miles away, in town, no problem. SatTV is only choice. Cell phones work ok, the downloads take forever, but QWest is a HUGE joke.

 

I looked into it because we can't get broadband here yet (just in the military base housing, of course). Directway wanted I think, $100/month for the first 14 months, then I think $69/month. That included the equipment.

FOr that, you get a 500 kbs. That's slower than DSL and WAY slower than cable.

So, if you want it because you don't have DSL or Cable (like at campgrounds), it might be a viable option. For me... I'm going to wait until we can get Cable or DSL here.

 

If you want satellite ISP in an RV, you have to go with a special seeking dish that runs something like $1900. They tell you they will not allow you to hand seek for the setup - - I know some people do, but not supposed to. WiFi is coming on so fast I am waiting and watching for my needs while on the road. Until, then, I will just keep a dialup something while travelling. Libraries work good.

 

The delay is simply the 50,000 mile round trip the signal has to make to get to the geosynchronous orbit of the satelite. That adds about 270 msec latency to the trip. That's a LOT of delay when you add up the fact that each sequence of packets has to be acknowledged.

Edwin

 

We used Direcway at a previous job and man the problems we had! I spent more time fooling with that service than using it. I would not recommend it to ANYONE, too expensive and WAY too much hastle, not to mention the 600 modem is USB only, not alot of help if you want to use it with a network.

Jason