Satellite broadband

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Has anyone had any experience with satellite broadband where fibre is not available?

 

Having a look at the options, it appears that some funding may be available subject to T&Cs and just wondered if anyone in the rural areas had considered it or experienced it?

 

Better Broadband - Superfast fibre optic broadband - Superfast Cornwall

 

Any plusses or minuses and any recommends for service providers appreciated.

[briquette_seller]

I was told its no good if your a gamer, I forget why.

I looked at it a few years back, but with no mains electricity none of the providers were sure how the router would react to being switched off and on

[NFG]

Hi

 

I connected a business to a satellite a few years ago, it worked well but:

 

1. the equipment was quite expensive

2. It was very 'lagging' in that it took a little time to process website clicks, this is due to the distance between earth & satellite. However, if your existing connection is poor then this may be less noticable.

 

I suspect the routing kit is much cheaper now & some of the lag may have been removed by composite soultions where requests are sent via conventional broadband & data is downloaded via the satellite link

 

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[gdh]

The problem with satellite is, as said above, that your ping (response time) is higher than normal broadband because the information has to travel so much further. Unless you game it shouldn't be a problem as it's only a. 8 second delay on average from memory.

 

We use wireless broadband which means installing a box outside the house but has no ping issues. Ours comes from resq but you would have to find someone closer, as a comparison ours was 1k to install but covered by the grant and costs £24pm for 12mbps unlimited although there's faster, more expensive packages.

[dan494]

It's slow because the outgoing signal still goes through the phoneline (you don't beam a signal into space just receive like sky tv) the download comes from the satellite which is faster

 

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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Thanks all!

 

All understood and makes sense with what I've looked at / read so far....

 

[Sussex Groundie]

You might want to Google Infra red, A Farmer also had a problem getting connected so he set up an infra red system. Was so successful he ended up setting up a company to market it to rural customers, fast too.

 

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[Sussex Groundie]

Theres a Daily Mail article on Richard Guy who built his own phone mast on his remote farm at Salisbury Plain

 

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[spudulike]

You can spend time maximising a low speed, three areas to look at are removing the bell wire from your phone socket, fitting a replacement face plate and getting a router where the SNR can be adjusted.

 

I managed to go from 2Mbs up to 4Mbs.....not much but it is fast around here:001_rolleyes:

[NFG]

Can you get 4G?

 

If so you could consider tethering a mobile with a suitably generous bandwidth allocation

 

N