Does anyone use Satellite Broadband - any good?

Tacker35

I'm not happy with broadband service from BT, I was previously with Sky which was little better. I recently had email from company offering broadband via satellite and since I have TV dish thought this might be better. However I cannot find details of the cost of such a service nor what their service standard is like. Does anyone have such data?

P_McGoohan

http://www.broadbandwherever.net/home-user/rental

£ 50 /month 22Mbps Unlimited, £99 set up, 1 month contract.

System

Plus £125 installation fee unless you are capable of installing and aligning a satellite dish yourself. You can not use your Sky/Freesat dish
plus additional £50 for 12 month contract instead of 24 month contract.

Timalay

Satellite broadband will need a new dish installation. You can't have it via a Sky Dish. It has small data allowances per £. Also it can be not very reliable for streaming and gaming (known to get bursts of data, rather than a stream of data).

macman

Generally a last resort for those who cannot get ADSL due to exchange distance. Hardly moneysaving if you can get LLU services such as Sky.

VisionMan

macman wrote: »

Generally a last resort for those who cannot get ADSL due to exchange distance. Hardly moneysaving if you can get LLU services such as Sky.

No. But the OP hasn't said why hes's not happy with said providers.

Tacker35

Many thanks to those who responded and certainly gave me cause for reconsideration. Just to explain dissatisfaction with landline suppliers - with Sky kept getting problems with service failure. Changed to BT only to have problems getting it set up in first place and then occasional service failure. January this year line went faulty and took month for it to be restored following new pole and five space of cable replacement. After some time for new line to 'settle down' have had several failures of service mostly lasting few minutes and occasional message 'lack of bandwidth'. BT investigating but nit optimistic so was looking for alternatives.
Again many thanks for all the info.

macman

You are going to have to pay a lot for the alternative-and it will still offer limited bandwidth.
If the faults are intermittent line failure on the local loop, then switching from Sky was rather pointless, as you are still on exactly the same line with BT, hence the continued issues. Sky don't provide or maintain the local loop-OR do.
It's a line issue, not an ISP issue.

johnp7620

Hi, I live in a rural area. I need high speed broad band but unfortunately do no have the ability for it nor will it happen in the foreseeable future.

My question is which is the cheapest best rate satellite broad band ?

Buzby

Not really. The Ping rates are abysmal and as there are no unlimited deals, usage costs can be so high it makes dial up seem superb value.

molerat

In some places even dial up is not available so the cost is just something that has to be sucked up.