OT Wildblue vs DSL

super99 · Dec 22, 2009

Getting tired of Wildblue internet service. Doesn't work in bad weather, $50/month, Microsoft downloaded a whole bunch of updates and now they are slowing my service down for a month because I used too much. Local phone co ( frontier) is offering DSL for 24.60/month for 1 year. I called and the lady said it was 3 megs, I think Wildblue is 156,000? Is DSL faster than satelite? Anybody have DSL, how is it working? Chris

colekicker · Dec 22, 2009

It will be way faster. I'd switch in a heartbeat. I had to get wildblue because I couldn't get anything else where I moved to.

paul · Dec 22, 2009

Wow, you can get 3 meg DSL???? I was _very_ lucky to get 1meg (actually tests out to .95 meg, they said I was pushing the limits on distance, do I want that at the 1meg price or downgraded to 500meg?). Most around this part of the rural world can only get 256 or 500k. Three years ago the most I coulda got was 128k reliably.

Anyhow, DSL is better than Wildblue, hands down.

--->Paul

BCnT · Dec 22, 2009

i just dumped Wild Blow after 3 years of lousy service...local wireless company got within range and i'm now in 3KBPS range for less money than wb...go for the dsl...its well worth it.

Firewood · Dec 22, 2009

We switched because the Wild Blue service did not work when we wanted to watch the radar. Times of big snows or tornados it went out.

We are happy with the switch.

kyplowboy · Dec 22, 2009

I have not had any dealings with wild blue.

Had dial up at the house, got my night job where there was 4 of us use'n a T1 line. Dumped dial up cause it was cool when I didn't know better but never used it cause it made me mad. When I got married a year and a half ago we were going to get satalite but the wife called At&T on the off chance that we could get DSL. We are kind of at the end of line so they told us the high dollar real fast DSL wouldn't work here so we got the $25 plan the second slowest DSL they had. I love it, I can can still stream music while I am doing other stuff on line. It drags down some times but it is far better than what I had here before and I am glad to have it now that I got in trouble a few weeks ago at work and now can't get on line for another 48 weeks.

Dave

F-350 · Dec 22, 2009

We dumped Wildblue because every time a cloud went over we lost service.We now have Hughesnet which stays on but you can only watch about 6-9 minutes of video per hour or you go over the limit.Then you get shut down to a crawl for 24 hours.I'd have DSL in a second if it were available.

Jon Hagen · Dec 22, 2009

Had Wild Blue for two years, better than dialup by a lot. A month ago our phone coop made fixed wireless dsl avalible. We were the last user on the end of our worn out phone line that they wanted to abandon. We now get phone and internet by fixed wireless, phone is great and internet is twice as fast as Wild Blue for the same $40 per month.

RodinNS · Dec 22, 2009

Have wireless here... Dunno how fast exactly, but generally fast enough to stream off youtube. 50 bucks a month. Worth looking into. Only downside is the antenna freezing up/coating with ice in a freezing rain storm.

Rod

gitrib · Dec 22, 2009

I had wildblue for 3 yrs and now have ATT DSL Ther is no comparison. I have the second tier of pricing in a bundle with Dish TV and local and unlimited long distant telephone about $150 and boy is DSL fast. I do a lot of uploading and down-lowding. Never got slowed down. Wildblue had me on idle all of the time. Beside if a cloud ame up we lost the Radar for stormm.
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Justin-PA · Dec 22, 2009

I had Hughesnet for 2 years, and as I understand Hughesnet is a bit better than Wildblue. We just got DSL in our area. I went from 1Mbps for $60/month (Hughesnet) to 3 MBps for $30/month (Verizon DSL). There"s just no comparison at all. DSL works during a storm, doesn"t slow you down if you watch a video, etc.

Go for DSL.

Walterdavies · Dec 22, 2009

They put the cable in right across the street from but it don't work so i'm on Hughsnet till they do get then POW! I'm gone.
Walt

Fawteen · Dec 23, 2009

BTDT, no contest. Sh1tcan WB and go DSL. You'll never look back.

super99 · Dec 23, 2009

Thanks, Guys, you talked me into it. Probably be a pain changing all the e-mail addresses but sounds like it's gonna be worth it. Chris

Kruse · Dec 23, 2009

I'm like everybody else here. Wildblue or Hughes is better than dialup. But if you have access to DSL or wireless, go with it. We got tired of losing service everytime a cloud went over or went over our download limit and were happy to get rid of them.

Mn Dave · Dec 23, 2009

(quoted from post at 02:39:30 12/23/09) Thanks, Guys, you talked me into it. Probably be a pain changing all the e-mail addresses but sounds like it's gonna be worth it. Chris

If you have internet based email, then nothing changes. I only use internet based email and it has all worked great for the last 5 years.

gitrib · Dec 23, 2009

One thing I found out if you have a Wildblue e-mail address The minute you cancel they drop your e-mail adress and you do not get any e-mail. Boy what a headache that was. so. question them hard over that. I changed to gmail
and have got along just fine. It feeds to my outlook express software. Just a suggestion.
gitrib

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