I Have been on Hughes sat net for a couple of years, and because of frequent outages and slow internet speeds; we have changed over to Exede Satellite; which I guess is old Wildblue under a different name. As we also run a business here we went for the ultimate plan of 150 GB per month; using their viasat-1 satellite. Has anybody had experience with Exede?
Well it's been almost two months and seems there is not much experience with satellite internet here on CF; or at least Hughes or Exede; so I thought I would give my 2 cents worth; on the two.
Hughes would normally run about 3.80MB/sec-- advertised as up to 10MB/SEC-- but with slow down during prime time on the eastern US seaboard of 3pm to 12midnight ETZ.
Exede runs between 10 and 12 MB/sec--advertised at up to 15MB/sec-- and right now, just looked at it, with this site running and it was doing 11.37 MB/sec ; and at night can get 14+MBs most of the time; so that is much better then Hughes.
That was with Hughes business plan @ about $100 per month and with a 15GB cap per month; but it didn't seem like we ever got close to that much, and if you went over their limit you were slowed down to dial-up speed; barley enough to read your email. They did have a free period from 12midnight till 8am PTZ; which helped turn me into more of a night owl then I already was, but it had a lot of outages and slow down in the middle of the night for no reason.
Exede was advertising there business plan at $179 a month; but they have brought there prices down to $70 a month; for 150Gb per month, since last August, their site on line still has the higher price. This was due to their launching a new satt--Viasat-1 satellite last year.
Videos now run without looking like movies of the 1920s. The installation was advertised at $299 but when we hooked up it was $150.
If you have Direct TV; you can bundle it with internet; this seems to be getting down to what people pay in town for high speed with cable net works. So all in all I would say Exced; excedded our expectations and Hughes net better get busy and throw up another satellite if they want to compete.
