O/T ATT DSL VS SKY BLUE

Since everything is off topic this morning here is another one. Remote area where we have the farm only service avl was wild blue about 3 years ago. Have been paying around $ 600.00 a year and have real good service. Now ATT DSL is in the area at about $ 20.00 bucks a month.
I am on no contract with wild blue could change at no charge. Would I be satisified? Is it slower or an problems..No cabel avl>

My DSL (not A,T&T) is extremely fast, but my service provider told me that is because I am less than 1/4 mile from the service box.

I would ask AT&T what the speed would be at your location. (or at least what it should be) and check what your speed is with your current company. You can run a speed check at cnet.com Look for the bandwidth meter. It is usually located in the upper right hand side of their home page.

usually dsl is faster but not always... if you do a lot of internet, look into dsl. the slowest speed you will get will be 384kb.. but could be up to 1.5 mbs if your close enough. I started out at 385kb and rewired the house so that the dsl splitter was on the outside and the dsl lean was home run from the outside splitter and got my speed up to 1.5mbts... but I am 18,530 feet from the central office and the last house before loadcoils, so I am as far away as you can get and still have dsl service.

Whats wierd is.. that the dsl works even when it rains for weeks and my phone does not. even with all the hum on the line the high freq dsl keeps on working... I have to wait a day or to for the lines to dry out and my phone is as good as new, but my dsl never fails. The $19.95 a month is a great buy for dsl. I hope you do as good as I have the last 10 years...I probably could even pay for faster, but the 1.5megabits is fine for now. Wild Blue is great for folks who cant get dsl or higher speeds..

good luck, Bill

Was on Wildblue for years. ATT made DSL available so I went to them and pay for the fastest speed. DSL is great. We have a state wide weather Mesonet and can watch the weather radar. With DSL it is always on with WB we would get nothing when a storm was brewing. Sure nice to keep fellows infield informed via cell phone. Son has phone with ATT internet so he can always check. We have a wireless router so several computer can be on line at one time.

gitrib

Thanks that was the kind of feed back I wanted. What worries me is so far att has kinda been elusive about what speed things would be running.
May wait awhile.. Again thanks to all and happy Turkey day from Tennessee

As a general rule, any terrestrial service except dial-up beats any satellite service in terms of speed, latency, and service quality. So DSL should be better than Wild BLue. A friend's experience with Wild Blue was unsatisfactory. He had to switch to the business version of Hughesnet to get something sort-of acceptable. (DSL, cable, and wireless not available down in the canyon where he's at). Still, he misses the DSL he had in town.

(quoted from post at 15:16:35 11/26/09) As a general rule, any terrestrial service except dial-up beats any satellite service in terms of speed, latency, and service quality. So DSL should be better than Wild BLue. A friend's experience with Wild Blue was unsatisfactory. He had to switch to the business version of Hughesnet to get something sort-of acceptable. (DSL, cable, and wireless not available down in the canyon where he's at). Still, he misses the DSL he had in town.

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That 18,530 feet or first loading coil is usually a DSL-killer for rural folks.

I talked to the lineman for our phone company and asked which was better WB or DSL(they are the dealer for both)and he told me to always go with wire if I had a choice.

I had that problem several years ago after a steady rain. Often mine would allow calls out but not calls in, sometimes it was both, sometimes it was just a background noise. No matter what happened with the voice service the DSL never seemed to have any problems.

I called numerous times for repair service but when they finally came out they could never find a problem as the wires had already dried out. I waited several months with no rain and no problems, and the very next storm I had the same problem. This time when I called I got an older guy (actually in the US this time and he spoke 'country' just like me). He had been a lineman in his earlier days and he said he would generate an order that actually told the guys to look in the main lines and not at the lines in the house, which was what they always checked and blamed before no matter what I told the folks in India. Anyway he told me there was a probably a short somewhere in the lines between the pair servicing my house. He said if the order he prepared didn't get the problem fixed when the next rain came to call and tell the main office about the problem and to tell them flat out to put my service on another pair...which was what he was telling the service crew to do in the order he generated. That has been over a year, and alot of rain on the lines ago, and I haven't had a problem since.

For $20 a month I wonder what kind of service level that really is. OR is that a cut rate for XX months to get you to sign up.

I have Bellsouth (ATT) DSL and pay $45 a month.