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.