My WISP is closing shop....

[Dgenx321]

So now I need to know, Wild Blue or Hughes Net??

I'm a heavy user and FAP scares me, but it looks like Huges offers 300mb a day compared to WB's 75 or so..

Whats the better of the two??

[digiblur]

So now I need to know, Wild Blue or Hughes Net??

I'm a heavy user and FAP scares me, but it looks like Huges offers 300mb a day compared to WB's 75 or so..

Whats the better of the two??

I've know people with both systems. The HughesNet guy hits the FAP all the time. He hadn't used the computer all day, we fired it up and downloaded about 150 meg of pictures and boom FAP for the rest of the day.

The Wildblue customer I know has the lowest package and burns up the downloads and even watches a remote Slingbox for a few hours with it.

[Stargazer]

I remember when Dgenx321 stated how cheap the package was for the speed at the price that he had which was very cheap. I wondered how they could stay in business at that cheap of price for that kind of package. They were not charging enough or DSL/Cable went into part of their territory and took a lot of their customers.

[digiblur]

Any EVDO in your area from Verizon, Sprint of Alltel?

[bajadudes]

or take a look at starband:

FAP thresholds are only monitored between the hours of 6:00am and 12:00am.

Nova Pro 1000 (1024/128)
Download Threshold (rolling 7 day period) - 1600 Mbytes
Download Recovery Rate - 150 Kbps
Download Exit threshold (rolling 7 day period) - 1024 Mbytes
Upload Threshold (rolling 7 day period) - 400 Mbytes
Upload Recovery Rate - 56 Kbps
Upload Exit threshold (rolling 7 day period) - 275 Mbytes

Nova Pro 1500 (1.5/256)
Download Threshold (rolling 7 day period) - 4000 Mbytes
Download Recovery Rate - 400 Kbps
Download Exit threshold (rolling 7 day period) - 2750 Mbytes
Upload Threshold (rolling 7 day period) -1000 Mbytes
Upload Recovery Rate - 96 Kbps
Upload Exit threshold (rolling 7 day period) - 700 Mbytes

And you can self install

[Jared Twomey]

or take a look at starband:


And you can self install

from the starband website faq

"It is an FCC requirement that a professional StarBand certified installer must install your system. Self-installations are NOT allowed. Because the dish antenna both receives from and transmits to the satellite, the installation must be very precise. If you are not a StarBand certified installer and you perform your own installation or even a portion of the installation, you will void any applicable installation and service warranty."

[HCI]

from the starband website faq

"It is an FCC requirement that a professional StarBand certified installer must install your system. Self-installations are NOT allowed. Because the dish antenna both receives from and transmits to the satellite, the installation must be very precise. If you are not a StarBand certified installer and you perform your own installation or even a portion of the installation, you will void any applicable installation and service warranty."

I think starband has an online certification that is FREE!!!
Or at least they did I remember going through it as a goof once. Also read the thread here about self installing starband and the horror stories.

[HCI]

Installation Training

yep

[Dgenx321]

Hughes Net will be out on the 29th of this month to install the system

Anyone here work for Guardian out of Akron Ohio??

[HCI]

Hughes Net will be out on the 29th of this month to install the system

Anyone here work for Guardian out of Akron Ohio??

Not sure if anyone here works for Guardian, but I do know they are a great company. Should not have any problems.