[LUNA] Satellite Internet
Michael W. Hall
hallmw at att.net
Mon May 27 18:01:07 CDT 2013
Thanks for the replies. I was out of town over the weekend. My AT&T is
getting terrible. Webpages take forever to load sometimes and some
times they do not load correctly. I live in Greenlawn Plantation in
Meridianville.
Years ago they ran fiber down the parkway and came by the neighborhood.
I would love to tie into that.
On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 03:54 +0000, Bob Nance wrote:
> I have always leased mine. In the 15 years I have had one, the DOCSIS protocol has gone through three major revisions and a handful of minor ones. The one cable modem that I was using before I started leasing was not upgradeable, so I would not have benefited from that.
>
> I see the Motorola Surfboard docsis modem selling for about $120, so I would guess that would be about a year's payback.
>
> I'll keep paying the insurance :)
>
> ---
> Bob Nance
> Novation Systems
> bob.nance at novationsys.com
> 256-534-4620
>
> On May 21, 2013, at 10:49 PM, Christopher R Key <crkey at crkey.com> wrote:
>
> > With respect to Comcast, what are people's experiences with cable modems? Does anyone on list own theirs or rent at $7/mo? I'm considering buying a modem just so I can knock one more cost off their billing. They're relatively cheap now and the breakeven is just at or under a year now.
> >
> >
> > Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Bob Nance <bob.nance at novationsys.com>
> > Date:
> > To: Christopher R Key <crkey at crkey.com>
> > Subject: Re: [LUNA] Satellite Internet
> >
> > Our office is in central Huntsville. Same AT&T options, none. Though, AT&T engineering claims that uVerse will start here "real soon, now™"
> >
> > We use Comcast and, other than a truck pulling the line off, we have had no problems :)
> >
> > -Bob
> >
> > ---
> > Bob Nance
> > Novation Systems
> > bob.nance at novationsys.com
> > 256-534-4620
> >
> > On May 21, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Allen Krell <allen.krell at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> In my neighborhood, in the heart of Huntsville, no AT&T options.
> >> Grandfathered Knology running 8-10 Mb/sec with resets 2-3 times per
> >> week. I could try Comcast, but haven't yet.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Jake Williams <jake at amynjakefamily.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> I would agree with Allen that it is worse, at least in Madison. I have been
> >>> with AT&T for almost 4 years on their 1.5Mb DSL service. In the past year I
> >>> have noticed it getting slower, and I recently had to upgrade to the 3Mb
> >>> circuit to get the same performance I was getting previously. I don't have
> >>> a Comcast option (WOW has a monopoly in the city limits) and I have been so
> >>> unimpressed by them from a consumer and business standpoint that I want
> >>> nothing to do with them (we have their phone service at work).
> >>>
> >>> I remember reading somewhere that AT&T said that their U-Verse buildout was
> >>> complete and they aren't planning on expanding it anytime soon. I live in a
> >>> neighborhood of 300 houses near downtown Madison and our subdivision
> >>> doesn't have it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> Bob Nance
> >>>>> Novation Systems
> >>>>> bob.nance at novationsys.com
> >>>>> 256-534-4620
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