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Originally Posted by MK999

Checked the pricing on a 2mile long ethernet cable? lol

Fibre optic is a bit of a con as well, certain bits of it are, but most of it is not fibre optic, meaning it's like having a short stretch of autobahn with 30 limits either side, it can go bloody quick but it ends up doing 30 following the queue into the 30 zone lol

Sounds odd for sattelite connections though, they're normally stupidly good, and worth their ridiculous pricing!

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It's a joke, £140 a month for an unreliable and slow service. But I have absolutely no realistic alternative.

There's no mobile phone Internet coverage, or I can drive a round trip of 10 miles to the nearest pub with Wi-Fi, or a 20 mile round trip to the nearest McDonalds.

So I have no real choice, pay the £140 monthly or go back to Dial Up.

The drill points should be round 180°

are you sure you have your anntenna alligned properly

i do sat comms for a living and we dont have problems like this

Like wise the millions of sky users dont either

WHat size is your antenna?

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Originally Posted by novarally

It's a joke, £140 a month for an unreliable and slow service. But I have absolutely no realistic alternative.

There's no mobile phone Internet coverage, or I can drive a round trip of 10 miles to the nearest pub with Wi-Fi, or a 20 mile round trip to the nearest McDonalds.

So I have no real choice, pay the £140 monthly or go back to Dial Up.

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My wallet just whimpered a bit lol There must be various satellite providers surely? Checked out reviews etc on some competitors? Satellite is the kinda connections IT businesses use to maintain terabyte upon gigabyte of massive servers remotely and as you say, the military... So it's hardly acceptable to be slow and cut out a lot!

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Originally Posted by Kev Turbo

are you sure you have your anntenna alligned properly

i do sat comms for a living and we dont have problems like this

Like wise the millions of sky users dont either

WHat size is your antenna?

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Interesting. I must have had the engineers out 6 times in the year since it's been installed. They've replaced cables, and checked the alignment many times, and assure me it's all spot on.

Most of the time when I phone the Helpdesk to moan about the speed they blame it on weather issues, as apparently the satellite signal is bounced back to a hub in Turin, Italy.

Turin seems to suffer with an awful lot of bad weather.

I would guess the dish is about a metre across, maybe a bit bigger?

We have Sky as well, and that has only ever played up in really extreme weather conditions.

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Originally Posted by MK999

My wallet just whimpered a bit lol There must be various satellite providers surely? Checked out reviews etc on some competitors? Satellite is the kinda connections IT businesses use to maintain terabyte upon gigabyte of massive servers remotely and as you say, the military... So it's hardly acceptable to be slow and cut out a lot!

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It's the installation costs which are the real killer, and I got mine installed for free by BT, after they withdrew the previous Internet service I was getting (which was done by radio signal, and was awesome - often up to 8MB).

Our sky does cut out in the rain but the dish is only on the 1st floor, floor level and it's one of the tiny ones in a right state! Although saying that since they put HD in we haven't had an issue, might have changed the dish! I haven't looked at it tbh lol

its is more than likely a 1.2 meter dish,

What equipment do you have your end?>

Yes weather can effect it a lot but that is not an excuse for poor service it simply wouldnt wash with our customers nor should it with you!

What speeds did they quote you?

Off topic! lol

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Originally Posted by scott.parker

Off topic! lol

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and yet still interesting enough to keep reading lol