I personally have never used it, but had a couple friends that had it out in the sticks a few years back and it works well enough.  The fact that it’s now bi-directional without the need for dial-up for outgoing information makes it much better.  The real complaints always came down to cost.

I would think latency would be rather high thanks to the guaranteed lag imposed by the speed of light and geosynch orbit. No idea other than that.
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Jack Kramer
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University Relations, Michigan State University
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:34 -0500
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Broadband Internet Via Satellite

Anybody out there have any recent experience with Satellite Broadband like that from Hughes?

What plan do you have?  How does it work for you?  Any issues?   Recommendations?

We are looking into that for a remote location in Jackson County.    It seems as if Verizon Mobile Broadband has a 5Gb cap and that is too small for my customers needs.



LD


Lee Duynslager  LD
Information Technology
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Michigan State University
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