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Originally Posted by Quagmire
I am on it, and it is better than dialup, but not great. During peak hours, like 4pm to 9pm it slows down to a crawl. Weekends in general are slow as well.
Due to all the trees on my property I can't get the portable internet or rocket stick. As much as I want better high speed, I'm not interested in clear cutting acres of land to get it.
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I'm in the exact same situation, but my experience seems to have been better than most here.
I'm on a 2Meg package, and regularly get 1.6M-1.8M download speeds. And, since we had the dish re-pointed, uploads aren't too bad either. I regularly download 100MB-200MB files with no issues, and speeds are consistent throughout the day.
We *do* occassionally get throttled, but it usually only lasts about 20 minutes. (that's when I go have a cookie break!).
But, yeah, it's expensive; $170/month, and about $1500 to install. Our local township paid for 75% of the install cost as an initiative to get small businesses on broadband connections; sweet.
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