[LUNA] Satellite Internet

[Bob Nance]

I don't know about that. I have Comcast internet at my house and for my business. 50/10 is nothing to sneeze out. 200/50 is supposed to be available by the end of the year.

My uptime is better than 4 nines. In fact, the only two outages I have had in the past two  years have been because of a tree falling on the line to my house and because the power company decided to shut down my house's power for 5 hours. Neither were Comcast's fault.

-Bob

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  Bob Nance
  Novation Systems
  bob.nance at novationsys.com
  256-534-4620

On May 21, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Allen Krell <allen.krell at gmail.com> wrote:

> AT&T has been talking about u-verse for years, I am not counting on it in
> my neighborhood in my lifetime.
> 
> I think everyone is frustrated because internet access in huntsville is no
> better than it was in the earlier days of broadband over 10 years ago.  In
> some ways, it seems worse.
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Bob Nance <bob.nance at novationsys.com>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Does anyone on the list use HughesNet?  I have DSL with ATT.  However, I
>>> only have 1.5Mbps.  My internet is getting slow.  I have all my TVs,
>>> computers, laptops, and XBox connected.  I need more bandwidth.  I have
>>> heard that ATT is not buying anymore equipment.
>>> 
>>> Looks like HughesNet is my only option for faster connection.  Just
>>> wanted some opinions if some on the use Satellite.
>> 
>> AT&T is moving to uVerse, which is supposed to provide higher bandwidth by
>> moving fiber closer to the end-user. Right now, I think the fiber is closer
>> that it was, but still several miles and several months away. In the
>> mean-time, they have applied the name uVerse to all of their home circuits,
>> as if that's a reasonable thing to do.
>> 
>> We talked to Traveller for some business clients a couple of years ago.
>> They provided fixed wireless services in a wide area, including most of
>> Huntsville and surrounding areas in view of large hills with towers on them.
>> 
>> http://www.traveller.com/
>> 
>> BamaWISP was another fixed-wireless provider..
>> 
>> http://bamawisp.com was purchased by Advanced Broadband
>> http://www.advbroadband.net/
>> 
>> However, 100% of the people I know that use HughesNET hate it.
>> 
>> 
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>>  Bob Nance
>>  Novation Systems
>>  bob.nance at novationsys.com
>>  256-534-4620
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