Recent content by mallured

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    Satellite Inet Users Be Aware

    I got caught in the FAP trap too. I knew about it, but promptly forgot. The kids came home for Christmas and BANG, throttled down the speed. Forget about the notification at 80% -- they told me two days AFTER I went over my limit! If they would have followed their own rules I would have warned...
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    Status Update From WildBlue

    I have had WildBlue for a couple of months. It is definitely faster than my old dial-up (could only eek out 24k). It is not as fast as the numbers seem, thought. When downloading a file the speeds are what you would expect, but in surfing the Internet, I think that cookies and other hidden...
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    WildBlue to be OFFICIAL BROADBAND PROVIDER

    Any outages? Has anyone that has experience with WildBlue come up with outages? I have seen discussions on latency, but I would like to know if storms, sunspots, winds, or other natural events (like teenagers) have caused disruption in service.