mrcomer
Past Ohio Chapter Leaders (Founding)
I could really use some help here.
We currently have Wild Blue satellite INTERNET. It is far better than the crappy free dial up we were using but as always, I want more speed. The cost of our satellite INTERNET is about $49.99/month. It does have its problems specifically weather. I was wondering if going to a cellular broadband setup would be better and hopefully more reliable.
The issue we have here with cellular is signal. For the past 10+ years we have been with Cingular/AT&T. For the most part we have been pretty happy with the exception that we typically do not get a good signal here at home, until recently we upgraded out phones to a Motorola Razr V3. We now can talk on our cell phones inside our house with a pretty reasonable signal and no drops. I wish I knew this a long time ago but none of the customer representatives would ever tell me if the phone made any difference. Well it apparently does. So because of this new revelation on my part I am hoping that cellular broadband 3G would be of some significant increase in reliability to satellite.
Once I have determined via input from this forum that going cellular broadband is a good idea I will have a new dilemma. From what I have gathered, no service provider will allow a trial period for this type of service. I want to try it for thirty days or so, pay the cost for the trial in order to determine if it really is the thing to do before entering into a long term contract. the contract doesn't bother me so much as long as the service is good.
Ok now it is your turn, please tell me your thoughts.
Thanks,
Mark
We currently have Wild Blue satellite INTERNET. It is far better than the crappy free dial up we were using but as always, I want more speed. The cost of our satellite INTERNET is about $49.99/month. It does have its problems specifically weather. I was wondering if going to a cellular broadband setup would be better and hopefully more reliable.
The issue we have here with cellular is signal. For the past 10+ years we have been with Cingular/AT&T. For the most part we have been pretty happy with the exception that we typically do not get a good signal here at home, until recently we upgraded out phones to a Motorola Razr V3. We now can talk on our cell phones inside our house with a pretty reasonable signal and no drops. I wish I knew this a long time ago but none of the customer representatives would ever tell me if the phone made any difference. Well it apparently does. So because of this new revelation on my part I am hoping that cellular broadband 3G would be of some significant increase in reliability to satellite.
Once I have determined via input from this forum that going cellular broadband is a good idea I will have a new dilemma. From what I have gathered, no service provider will allow a trial period for this type of service. I want to try it for thirty days or so, pay the cost for the trial in order to determine if it really is the thing to do before entering into a long term contract. the contract doesn't bother me so much as long as the service is good.
Ok now it is your turn, please tell me your thoughts.
Thanks,
Mark