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I reblogged this post![I don’t know what they consider “high speed” internet, but here in the rural USA, we pay $80/month for 17,000MB (16GB) download/4.8GB upload on satellite for “up to” 1.5Mbps/256 Kbps. Generally speaking I see nothing like that speed.
However, if you hit 80% of those limits, you will run into their so-called Fair Access Policy [PDF] which will throttle your download speeds even further, and it takes a long time to get off the “shit list” once you’re on it.
(For comparison: if we lived “in town” we could get DSL. A relatively comparable service of 1.5Mbps/384Kbps would be $25/month. “High-end” DSL service is 6Mbps/768Kbps for $35/month with no bandwidth cap that I’m aware of or have ever run into. Oh, and you get free dialup service with every account, in case the DSL goes down—which ours never has. Wildblue charges $8/month for 10 hours of dialup access. DSL also comes with anti-virus software, which is $3/month from Wildblue.)
I can’t use Hulu. I can use YouTube only if I pause it and let it cache first. I never even dream of downloading movies from iTunes. They claim only 3% of their customers run into the Fair Access Policy, but I’m always running up against it (and I’m on the highest rate plan they have) even though I actively avoid high bandwidth activities.
The ‘latency’ is so bad that I can’t use any sort of remote login program, I can’t watch anyone’s streaming video, I could never use anything like MLB.TV.
In short: never move anywhere that doesn’t have cable or DSL coverage. We moved her 6 years ago and they said that cable was only a mile away. It’s still a mile away.
Friends don’t let friends use satellite internet.
cleversimon:
Want cheap high-speed Internet? Move to France.
Canada is home to the second most expensive high-speed Internet prices of the 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
(via The Globe and Mail)](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqm438N4I01qz5x0uo1_500.jpg)
I don’t know what they consider “high speed” internet, but here in the rural USA, we pay $80/month for 17,000MB (16GB) download/4.8GB upload on satellite for “up to” 1.5Mbps/256 Kbps. Generally speaking I see nothing like that speed.
However, if you hit 80% of those limits, you will run into their so-called Fair Access Policy [PDF] which will throttle your download speeds even further, and it takes a long time to get off the “shit list” once you’re on it.
(For comparison: if we lived “in town” we could get DSL. A relatively comparable service of 1.5Mbps/384Kbps would be $25/month. “High-end” DSL service is 6Mbps/768Kbps for $35/month with no bandwidth cap that I’m aware of or have ever run into. Oh, and you get free dialup service with every account, in case the DSL goes down—which ours never has. Wildblue charges $8/month for 10 hours of dialup access. DSL also comes with anti-virus software, which is $3/month from Wildblue.)
I can’t use Hulu. I can use YouTube only if I pause it and let it cache first. I never even dream of downloading movies from iTunes. They claim only 3% of their customers run into the Fair Access Policy, but I’m always running up against it (and I’m on the highest rate plan they have) even though I actively avoid high bandwidth activities.
The ‘latency’ is so bad that I can’t use any sort of remote login program, I can’t watch anyone’s streaming video, I could never use anything like MLB.TV.
In short: never move anywhere that doesn’t have cable or DSL coverage. We moved her 6 years ago and they said that cable was only a mile away. It’s still a mile away.
Friends don’t let friends use satellite internet.
Want cheap high-speed Internet? Move to France.
Canada is home to the second most expensive high-speed Internet prices of the 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
(via The Globe and Mail)
