Posted: 6/4/2015 10:04:32 PM EDT
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Anyone use Dish Network for internet? How is it?
I'm looking at buying a house where there's no cable. I'll probably get Dish for television, so I figure I might as well look into that as an internet option as well. Thanks |
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Personally I think ALL satellite based internet service is going to have latency problems. That means, if you are an internet gamer it will suck at best and be unusable at worst. Now, if you only use it for surfing the internet and email stuff then it will work OK, but even then downloading big stuff will be tough. But that's just my opinion. I've been with Dish since 1976, but I've never used their satellite internet. |
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Depends on why you want internet. If your just web surfing, posting on ar15.com, and watching Netflix, it's all good.
If your a gamer of any type, you WILL QUIT PLAYING. Funny thing they never tell you when pitching their product, but there's a latency issue that's beyond terrible. Before I got satellite internet I enjoyed playing online, and my ping was usually around 400, in the 350's on a good day. I switched to Dish and my ping jumped to over 4000. Not an exaggeration. With a friend online in the game and on a phone with me we timed how bad my lag was. I was experiencing a full 6 seconds of lag from when he told me over the phone what happened to when I would finally see it on my computer screen. Doesn't matter how fast their uploads and downloads claim to be, physics beats you down to reality and you find out that for your computer to send to your router, then to your dish to send to the satellite, to be bounced down to their receiver dish, over to their router, and off to the site your connected with, well, if you read all that you get the point. |
| Dish doesn't have internet, It's either Exede or Hughesnet Dish is reselling. Make sure you understand what you are getting before you sign the two year contract. We have Exede and are happy with it, but I went in knowing it's limitations and it or Hughesnet is our only alternative, we can't even have dialup. To me Exede was the better of the two. |
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I had it for a while last year when I was staying out in the boondocks.
It worked fine. Something like 10Mb download speed, but I had a 10GB limit and hit it every month. Then the speed went down to like 128k. I paid about $117/month with TV and internets. It's Hughes, so if you can get a better deal straight through them instead of Dish, it'll be the same. |
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I'm not a gamer, but it would be nice to be able to watch movies. I figure that's the wave of the future.
A neighbor of the place I'm looking at tonight told me they got internet through the phone company, presumably DSL but she didn't know. But she said it's too slow for OnDemand. Is it possible they just don't have good enough package or is it possible that the capacity for a faster service just isn't there? I don't really care that much about OnDemand right now, but it might be nice to be able to use Netflix, etc.. |
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I'm not a gamer, but it would be nice to be able to watch movies. I figure that's the wave of the future. A neighbor of the place I'm looking at tonight told me they got internet through the phone company, presumably DSL but she didn't know. But she said it's too slow for OnDemand. Is it possible they just don't have good enough package or is it possible that the capacity for a faster service just isn't there? I don't really care that much about OnDemand right now, but it might be nice to be able to use Netflix, etc.. Satellite internet is a LAST resort. You will probably burn through your data limit in a few days of movie watching, then you are liited to damn near dialup speeds for the rest of the month The most expensive plan ($70/month) limits you to 30 gigs/month. |
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I have Wildblue.
It fucking sucks, but the packages are slightly better than Hughes in terms of connection speed and data allowance vs. price. Download speeds are manageable. I can stream youtube and what not, but as others have said, the data limits are the biggest hindrance. I have a 12 GB rolling 30 day limit so Netflix is absolutely out of the question. Latency is terrible, but I haven't played a video game since my Nintendo the 1980's so I don't really care about that. |
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Man we lived in a technological cess pool for years. Finally got AT&T Uverse 12 months ago and about everyday I reflect on what we use to have and get a little gratitude for Uverse.
As a side note, if you get a good 4G cell signal then the better performance would probably be that. Depending on how much data you use it could be expensive though. |
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I actually didn't realize they had data limits. I don't think I want to deal with that, it's bad enough watching my data use on my phone... Oh yea, you have data limits. You're not streaming movies on satellite internet. Well, you can but not for long. At least with our Exede we have a free time from 12:00 to 5:00 am. |
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I actually didn't realize they had data limits. I don't think I want to deal with that, it's bad enough watching my data use on my phone... I can get 4G, but the prices for cell phone data packages are way more than satellite internet. My 12GB of satellite runs a little over $50/month. My cell phone is faster, but a comparable data plan on the cell is a lot more than that. |
| I have Americas Internet wireless. It basically blows 75% of the time. Youtube at 144p never plays without buffering a couple times per minute. When it gets really bad the audio stream from Hardradio.com won't play at 64kbps. Surfing Arfcom and reading email is about all it's good for. |
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I actually didn't realize they had data limits. I don't think I want to deal with that, it's bad enough watching my data use on my phone... You still have service after you go over the data limit, but it is not usable. Maybe 100kbps or so. Dish does not tell you what limit you fall back to, just that it is significantly slower. |
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You still have service after you go over the data limit, but it is not usable. Maybe 100kbps or so. Dish does not tell you what limit you fall back to, just that it is significantly slower. Quoted:
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I actually didn't realize they had data limits. I don't think I want to deal with that, it's bad enough watching my data use on my phone... You still have service after you go over the data limit, but it is not usable. Maybe 100kbps or so. Dish does not tell you what limit you fall back to, just that it is significantly slower. Yeah, getting throttled makes dial-up look fast. 
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I'm not a gamer, but it would be nice to be able to watch movies. I figure that's the wave of the future. A neighbor of the place I'm looking at tonight told me they got internet through the phone company, presumably DSL but she didn't know. But she said it's too slow for OnDemand. Is it possible they just don't have good enough package or is it possible that the capacity for a faster service just isn't there? I don't really care that much about OnDemand right now, but it might be nice to be able to use Netflix, etc.. Both are possible. "On Demand" services from sat tv providers require much higher bandwidth than services like Netflix in my experience, so if she can't use her Dish/Directv on demand service, she may still be able to stream content from other sources. On the other hand, some areas on the edge of DSL networks top out at < 1 Mbps. I would ask her to run a speed test. If she can get > 2 Mbps, then you can expect to be able to play DVD quality video from places like Netflix that offer efficiently encoded video content. Also, there might be a small wireless ISP in your area that offers service. Ask around and see what other people in your area are using. Whatever you do, don't sign a contract for sat service unless you are absolutely positive you have no other alternative; sat internet blows. |
| We are in a similar situation. We bought a house in an area with no cable, but the previous owners had Att dsl. So we call Att to get set up and the say they don't do that in our area anymore but we can sign up for a cellular hot spot. I do not need another cell / data plan. We would burn through the months worth of data in like a week. Luckily I found a wi fi internet company that has a decent rep coming to hook us up once the get caught up repairing all the storm damage. In the mean time I have to use my phone hot spot if I need to use the computer for something. |
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I just got mine (Dish Network Internet) installed last week. The 12 mbps version. I have to pay an extra $10 per month for the lease of the modem. The Internet service is $59.99 but I have a $10 bundle (TV and Internet) discount for 6 months. The contract is for 2 years.
The guy that installed it was from Century Link. So, I suggest that you start with Century before you decide. BTW....it works and haven't had a problem yet. I ran a speed test and got 10.1 mbps on the download speed at 0300 hrs. Aloha, Mark |