Advice on Best Type of Internet
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Satellite suffers from "rain fade", heavy rains will cause interruptions. Overcast skies shouldn't bother it though. Too early to tell with Starlink since it is only available in limited areas but I suspect it too will suffer some outages from heavy rains.
Conventional sats in order to appear stationary are in a geosynchronous orbit which is around 22,000 miles above the earth. This distance creates a time lag problem called "latency".. If you need to use the internet connection for things like Zoom meetings or VoIP phone calls the high latency make make that unusable for you.
Not to mention sat internet is very expensive for the speed and data limits you get. Hughes net has Plan starting at $70 per month with 20GB data limit, 25Mbps speed and a contract of 24 months.. They throttle your speed when you exceed your data limit to 1-3 Mbps
Compare that to a cable Internet like I have which offers 200 Mbps speeds, 2TB data caps, no contract and costs me $80 per month.
Since you need 100% uptime, hard wired cable internet (copper or fiber) is generally your best choice, followed by cellphone services and sat, last.. Heck just last night I lost my sat TV for several hrs during a heavy rain storm..
If you are shopping for cell internet, don't go by the cell companies marketing maps, they are not 100% true and often shows more coverage than there really is.. You can search for cell towers maps, those maps will show you the locations of the cell towers near you and often will have overlays which will show the service coverage of the towers..
Conventional sats in order to appear stationary are in a geosynchronous orbit which is around 22,000 miles above the earth. This distance creates a time lag problem called "latency".. If you need to use the internet connection for things like Zoom meetings or VoIP phone calls the high latency make make that unusable for you.
Not to mention sat internet is very expensive for the speed and data limits you get. Hughes net has Plan starting at $70 per month with 20GB data limit, 25Mbps speed and a contract of 24 months.. They throttle your speed when you exceed your data limit to 1-3 Mbps
Compare that to a cable Internet like I have which offers 200 Mbps speeds, 2TB data caps, no contract and costs me $80 per month.
Since you need 100% uptime, hard wired cable internet (copper or fiber) is generally your best choice, followed by cellphone services and sat, last.. Heck just last night I lost my sat TV for several hrs during a heavy rain storm..
If you are shopping for cell internet, don't go by the cell companies marketing maps, they are not 100% true and often shows more coverage than there really is.. You can search for cell towers maps, those maps will show you the locations of the cell towers near you and often will have overlays which will show the service coverage of the towers..
