So I looked up some more information about this "New" provider and got some more information about it. The company is called Exede, so I went to the website and the first thing that came up was a warning about Wildblue satellite service.
Okay so this Exede company is part of the same company ViaSat which provides the internet for Wildblue as well. I called up one of my clients who uses Wildblue to see if they had received any information about this but they hadn't. I looked up Wildblue's website to see if there had been any changes to internet plan that they had laid out but it goes to the same site above.
I found that this would be a good deal for those with Wildblue to upgrade to Exede, they even have a deal on the site if you are currently with Wildblue, its about the same price as WB and the same amount of bandwidth usage per month but 24 times faster. You do have to replace the dish and router to Exede which is $150 for the install.
This also applies to everyone who lives in a rural area since DSL has a limitation of 3.5 miles from the phone company building. If you currently have Satellite, Wireless, Dial up, and are paying too much or just want better speeds this would be something to look into.
Hughesnet Satellite internet currently $49.99 1Mbps, $79.99 1.5Mbps, $109.99 2Mbps
Clearwave Wireless they don't accept new customers but its $35 a month for 256Kbps 1/4 of 1 Mbps
Dialup uses your phone line and typically you get 20Kbps out in rural area's
Exede has a limit on how much you can use per month which is normal for some of you already $49.99 7.5GB, $79.99 15GB, $129.99 25GB all 12Mbps download 3Mbps upload
A fair warning though with faster speeds you can use up your allotment but I talked to the
salesman on this and he said that they will not charge you for the extra bandwidth it will just
slow down to a crawl which is better than some providers who will charge you up to $200 dollars
in overage fee's.
The salesman I talked to also mentioned that if you have dish network you also get a discount
for bundling the service.
Custom Satellite Vision
1112 Evergreen Avenue,
Waterloo, IA 50701
onetimbucktwo@wildblue.net
if you want to check it out just give him a call or email them and mention that The Local Geeks sent you.
P.S. There may be some of you in some of the small rural towns that can get DSL but are limited to one provider and are limited to small amounts of speed.
Chris Long (not a writer just a geek trying to save everyone some money)
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