galemack
Joined: 15 Feb 2013
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 Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:16 pm Post subject: How good is satellite broadband? |
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I live about four miles from the exchange and until recently enjoyed just over 1Mbps, but at the moment there is an intermittent fault, a quiet crackle, which was not present when the engineer called. At the moment the speed is down to 300Mbps, and it might drop out anytime. Probably it will worsen over time and I can fetch him back but I am just weary of the hassle
I was about to fork out for satellite broadband when I checked the postings on this forum, and they are not complimentary, describing it as as bad as dialup. Is that really true? The problem appears to be that successive pages load slowly and the advertised speeds only apply to larger downloads.
Is there a noticeable delay before the page loads, latency, or is it just slow due to contention.
How slow is slow? It is bound to be subjective, does it only feel slow if you are used to say a 4Mbps but not too bad if, like me, you think 1Mbps is fast?
At least it should not drop out.
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