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I hope you are going with a pole mount? I prefer those even on a .74 meter, but for a .98 I wouldn't consider anything else (except my mobile mount, which is a different story). I have the plan that is one-above your small office plan, and it certainly works adequately. Latency is no fun, but...

Note that, in its long, slow slide, WB's satisfaction rating on BBR has finally dropped below its competitors. Currently 54% for WB, 56% for Hughes, 58% for Starband. I've never understood why anyone thinks that any of the three is their only option, since all three are available anywhere...

"Not supported" and "doesn't work" are two different things. The many thousands of satellite internet folks using VPN all day long to telecommute will tell you that it most definitely works, but is generally about dialup speed. Constant-on makes it typically better than dialup. A number of VPN...

Sometimes you just can't find things that will work for a particular situation. There are many, many places in this country (millions of acres) where it sounds like you might be willing to go, where satellite is the only possible connection. No problem taking a satellite mobile, whether it is...

"Slow" is relative - at any given moment there will be people with each modem type that are slower than snails, and others with the same modem that are getting very decent speeds. All sorts of factors, but the biggest one in those variations is the particular mix of users on your gateway - the...

The HughesNet Business Plans (I have the one they call "Business Internet") are much better than the consumer plans. The ProPlus plan is NOT a business plan, and is not promoted or sold as one. It is the highest of the consumer plans, and runs a bit better, but not a lot, than standard home...

The transponder will be shown as Frequency on the modem's System Info page. The reported problems have included complete signal loss, then degraded connection when the signal returns. I'm not a Hughes-direct customer, but I'm told that, at the height of the problem, there was a recording on...

What satellite and transponder? There have been multiple reports of problems on SatMex5 (117), mostly transponder 1070, this week, and a few reports of problems elsewhere including Horizons1 (127). The rest of the system is apparently performing normally.

[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] If that's your criteria, might as well chuck all satellite. At the moment on the BroadbandReports.com ratings, Hughes is at 54 and WildBlue at 56. Only difference is that WildBlue started high, and has steadily dropped. At the rate they are going, they will be below Hughes...

Satellites change names occasionally because companies get bought up. For example Americom satellites were originally GE, so AMC3 used to be GE3, and many Intelsat birds were Telstar, so IA6 used to be Telstar 6. Intelsat bought Panamsat recently, and at sometime in the past Panamsat acquired...

I have the East/West feeds because my service is in a motor home. When I got HD, I called to get that added, and they incorrectly submitted waiver requests at my billing address. I eventually got that corrected, but the part that's pertinent to this discussion is that one station (the ABC...

All of the systems now are self-hosted modems, so its really a matter of "Pick your poison." All three are companies a high percentage of their customers love to hate, with user ratings from 55-65 at BBR. I think the early adopters of WildBlue had it pretty good, and that may be true again for...

In their own releases, WB has set April 12th for the startup of use of WB1. At least they didn't choose April 1...

Now you are beginning to see why the 7000->7000S transition is NOT an upgrade. You will get roughly the same change, no matter what you do, as someone moving from one 7000 account to another 7000 account. Hughes does not provide complete details (they operate under extreme secrecy, under...

Locks up my browser (IE6 on Win2K) badly. Lockups are about 15 seconds in duration with 1 second inbetween where I can click on something and get past the main page.

It does sound like you are only on a Pro or ProPlus plan. There are two possible reasons you got a higher signal. One is that the transponder changed, and no two transponders have the same power. Another is that it is purely a measurement change. "Signal Strength" in a Hughes modem has a...

So they sold you Small Office without requiring that you buy a .98/2-watt? They aren't supposed to do that. Having said that, I have had Business or Small Office service with a .74 and a 1-watt with a 4020 and a 6000, and with a 7000 using a .74 2-watt. I did that because a mobile .98 wasn't...

What WB users think about the software update, based on 94 poll respondents at wildblue.cc: Have the update and it is an improvement 14.89% Have the update and it has made things worse. 56.38% Don't have the update yet. 0 0% Don't know if I have the update. Nobody tells me anything...

I don't think anyone said you thought wrong. It was what you concluded in a previous message that was wrong, when you said "It was a few holdouts that eventually caused the shut-off to occur." Thoughts right, conclusions wrong. Senator Feinstein's message is the first I've seen so far that...

The VPN accelerator available with the 7700 requires a concentrator installed at the other end. Minimum number of users for a single concentrator to be cost effective is about 30, so it is pretty much a big-business solution. The accelerator is not available for any modem other than the 7700 or...

Apples and oranges. Teledesic (NOT Iridium) would have been a worldwide answer to low-latency high-speed internet using low power non-directional antennas. A fleet of 290+ LEO satellites was needed. They launched one test bird and folded, as they learned their pockets weren't deep enough. The...

"United States District Judge William Dimitrouleas has issued an order referring this motion to United States Magistrate Judge Barry S. Seltzer for appropriate disposition or report and recommendation." - from Transmitter News Online.

Time does get away from you. The end of that was actually more than 4 years ago - the FCC ruled against it in October, 2002. There were a number of new rumors this past summer. See http://www.tvpredictions.com/echostock071806.htm and http://www.tvpredictions.com/satmerger071706.htm for...

Pretty much straight out of the E* press releases. Not true, but bought by you and a lot of the pundits/bloggers/opinionists around the net. A couple of separate issues. You use the $100 million settlement to indicate that distants were for sale. In fact, with a few exceptions like CBS HD into...

Correctable, but probably not an oversight which means it probably won't be corrected. WB uses traffic-shaping more than any other satellite provider I'm aware of, and they reduce the QoS for a large number of services. They will tell you that they are optimized for web and e-mail, and that's it.