Dish internet 7mbps

[Valkyriebush]

Anyone using the dish bundle for home internet and TV service only? is the lowest level 7 mpbs DSL sufficient for regular service speeds for general browsing and u tube videos? considering dropping my Verizon jet pac and reducing data from 15 g's to 12g's as the dish is unlimited data. Anyone using this wifi set up? I think we can use this wifi to connect our android phone too when home. Am I missing anything? Any input is welcome. Not sure if I asked dish the right questions. We will keep our Verizon smart phones, drop the jet pac, lower data from 15 g to 12 and save enough on our Verizon account to have the dish unlimited DSL wifi installed with unlimited data to our current TV plan only. Sound reasonable? Advantage, near same cost, unlimited data while home (7 months of the year). Disadvantage, no phone line on the road for dish internet, 3g's less data for phones from Verizon. Gone over data plan a couple of times. TIA

[Valkyriebush]

Goostoff wrote:
Are you talking about sattelite internet through Dish or land line DSL through dish?

We have Sattelite internet through Dish and I can tell you this is not a portable system to use in an RV. We get 10GB of data per month at 12MBs. After we hit the data cap we get turned down to 300KBs. It takes my kids 3 days to go through the 10GB

Dish Land line DSL for home use only, no data cap. Verizon smart phone 12g data plan, dropped Jet Pac and 3 gs. I think I got it covered. Wifi available many places while on the road, so exceeding my data will be a slimmer chance and no concerns when home. Thanks all for your input, I understand this better now. Saved a few bucks too.

[tatest]

I've gotten along fine with 3-5 mbps for years, including streaming Netflix, so long as I wasn't trying to do much other stuff (like system updates) while streaming video. My nominal rate was 5 mbps, my data overage fallback was 3.

The activity you describe can probably do pretty well at 250-500 kbps (continuous throughput), which is about the lower limit for comfortably streaming standard definition video.

[Goostoff]

Are you talking about sattelite internet through Dish or land line DSL through dish?

We have Sattelite internet through Dish and I can tell you this is not a portable system to use in an RV. We get 10GB of data per month at 12MBs. After we hit the data cap we get turned down to 300KBs. It takes my kids 3 days to go through the 10GB

[Valkyriebush]

Valkyriebush wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Are all of these assumptions based upon the fact that you will NOT be RVing? This is an RV forum so I am a bit confused about what it is you are looking for. Dish internet is NOT mobile (it's really Hughes or Exceed) so I just want to make sure everyone knows that this has nothing at all to do with RVing.

I have dish in my RV, just making sure I wasn't missing something.

[Valkyriebush]

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Are all of these assumptions based upon the fact that you will NOT be RVing? This is an RV forum so I am a bit confused about what it is you are looking for. Dish internet is NOT mobile (it's really Hughes or Exceed) so I just want to make sure everyone knows that this has nothing at all to do with RVing.

I have dish in my RV, just making sure I wasn't missing something.

[Bill_Satellite]

Are all of these assumptions based upon the fact that you will NOT be RVing? This is an RV forum so I am a bit confused about what it is you are looking for. Dish internet is NOT mobile (it's really Hughes or Exceed) so I just want to make sure everyone knows that this has nothing at all to do with RVing.

[wa8yxm]

Dish has a number of plans but this I can say... I'd be estatic with 7Mbps

[Valkyriebush]

dsteinman wrote:
We were at 5 mbps on our DSL until a couple of years ago. It was fine for 2 kids using youtube alot and a Netflix movie at HD. At work we were still at 5 mpbs until last year and it was fine for 5 people browsing, downloading, working remotely and everything else.

You will need a wifi router unless it is part of the deal. Then you can set the phone to use the wifi instead of the phone data. You might find you don't even need 12 mbytes for the months you are at home.

lryrob9301 wrote:
One other thing that has not been mentioned is bandwidth. I seriously doubt you will get 7mbs over a DSL line. It will be more like 1.1mbs or maybe they misread their script and the actual speed will be .7mbs

Our DSL was upgraded to fiber optic so now we have 26 mbps download. 23 mbps using speedtest.net. Anyhow the speed is measured in bits per second and that is what everyone quotes for a connection speed. If you are using bytes per second then it will be 1/8 - 1/10 the speed (sorry, I don't know if they still use parity bits or not).

David

Router included, exactly what I was hoping to hear concerning my phones and perhaps even reducing my Verizon to 10Gs. Thanks

[dsteinman]

We were at 5 mbps on our DSL until a couple of years ago. It was fine for 2 kids using youtube alot and a Netflix movie at HD. At work we were still at 5 mpbs until last year and it was fine for 5 people browsing, downloading, working remotely and everything else.

You will need a wifi router unless it is part of the deal. Then you can set the phone to use the wifi instead of the phone data. You might find you don't even need 12 mbytes for the months you are at home.

lryrob9301 wrote:
One other thing that has not been mentioned is bandwidth. I seriously doubt you will get 7mbs over a DSL line. It will be more like 1.1mbs or maybe they misread their script and the actual speed will be .7mbs

Our DSL was upgraded to fiber optic so now we have 26 mbps download. 23 mbps using speedtest.net. Anyhow the speed is measured in bits per second and that is what everyone quotes for a connection speed. If you are using bytes per second then it will be 1/8 - 1/10 the speed (sorry, I don't know if they still use parity bits or not).

David

[lryrob9301]

One other thing that has not been mentioned is bandwidth. I seriously doubt you will get 7mbs over a DSL line. It will be more like 1.1mbs or maybe they misread their script and the actual speed will be .7mbs.

[AllegroD]

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[doughere]

We had Dish TV and Windstream phone/DSL until a few years ago. Tried to bundle to get savings, got so fed up with the deal (you are having to deal with 2 different companies) that we dropped Dish for an exterior antenna, and went with local cable for internet. Our home phone is a Verizon Cell-type receiver (looks like a jet-pack receiver, disconnect outside phone lines, and plug into a phone outlet $25 month) that we use at home, and take with us while on the road.

Like Dutch_12078 said, you're at the mercy of some local yokels.

Regards,
Doug

[Dutch_12078]

The quality of the Dish TV/DSL Internet bundle is dependent on who the DSL provider is in your area. Dish works with a variety of regional landline DSL carriers, each with their own pluses and minuses.