Satelite Broadband

[jonno_c]

Has anyone used it?
I'm looking at rural ish houses and am being quoted 1/2mb on Broadband so need to look at other sources!

Apart from being more expensive what are people's thoughts?

 

[Gus]

Latency will be high so no good for gaming. Upload will be via modem or 3/4g and download will be via satellite.

 

[jonno_c]

Latency will be high so no good for gaming. Upload will be via modem or 3/4g and download will be via satellite.

Seeing as the PS4 is practically an ornament that's not too bad ; )
Cheers dude.

 

[charltjr]

Can be unreliable (bad weather affects the signal) and very expensive.

Data limits tend to be very low on all but the most expensive packages.

Have you seen there are government subsidies available for certain locations which can't get above 2Mb?

 

[Paprika123]

Avoid it if you can. We had it in a remote location before and when it was cloudy it was shite lol.

 

[Chrisgti6]

Are there no other options in the area? We have a company in the area that can offer 20mb via wireless http://www.w3z.co.uk/our-prices/

 

[R3k1355]

Only worth considering if the mobile signal is totally pants, each network has a signal strength checker which are usually accurate.

 

[Sam]

My mate has it and he lives in a caravan. He struggles streaming a youtube video. Id avoid if i could personally.