OT/Agristar Global high speed internet

Anybody have any experience with Agristar Global high speed internet. Went to their website. It says they use Hughsnet equipment. Pretty good deal through Farm Bureau. $249 for the equipment and professional installation. Two months free,then $59.95 a month. I've heard the good and bad of Wild Blue and others,but never heard anything about this one. I'm really tired of dialup,looking for something different that won't send me to the poorhouse.

In my house the Equip. (modem is $5 monthly)or I could buy it for 60 which I should do...I pay $20 monthly With bundled Qwest.. MSN is the high speed..life time price... but you are only locked in for two years After that you can get out or stay in at the $20..

Pretty sure they are all bouncing off the same satilite.
I would do it if I did not have another method.
Just keep your expectations in line.

Satilite service is like a truck. Takes a wile to load but can carry alot when it is loaded.

Has high latentcy. With DSL if you ping a server on the net it may take 20 to 200 NS for your signal to get there and back. Thats nano sec.
then you can down load a song or what ever at about 1.5 mega bit or more depending of service level.
Notice I said mega bit not mega bite. A bit is one 8th of a bite.
they use bit to make you think you are getting more than you are.

A satilite connection will take about a whole 1/2 to full sec to ping the same server. But when down loading After it gets started it goes fast.

Another thing is weather. Need a clear view of the southern sky. Clouds, rain snow ect all effect your service. Most likely when its raining and you want to be on the net. All your going to get is a blinking light.

A bigger company may have better tech support. But who really knows these days. All companies have us condition not to expect to much any more.

I bet if you call into tech support your call gets transfered to India to a company that sells tech support to many providers. They just turn the page to the flow chart for what ever company you are calling.



Most of the smaller ones are most likely just selling the same service as DTV but just packaging their name. They pay hughs a whole sale rate and charge you a retail rate. They may or may not own any infrastructure.


Thats my opinion any way.

I have had Wildblue for three years. Really no problem other than a bad electical storm can knock you off till it moves on. I send a lot of big doucuments so went to the second level.Wider Broadband, faster up and down load. I had heard in some area's you had trouble getting installed
while they were waiting for new Satliliteto go up. Went to them once or Tech Support. The lady that helped me was in Colorado. Excellent help.

gitrib

On my 3rd year with wild blue. Farm in remote area , no cabel or phone had no other choice. Have no problems and like the service. Haven,t lost much service in rain storms have on some times when ice got on the dish. Not cheap but
solved my problem.