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Follow-up to Exede sat service - Dick Moore - 04-26-2012
I'm getting regular download speeds of 20-30Mbits/sec (2.5-3.75MBytes/sec). Uploads are running at well over 1Mbits/sec. I've used several online speed meters for checking this. Subjectively, the service is VERY fast.
The dish is smaller than the very old Direcway dish I've had for years now, and the connection from dish to modem is a single cable, not two. Nice.
I'll be saying goodbye to Hughesnet effective April 30.
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - OWC Jamie - 04-26-2012
How is latency?
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - Paul F. - 04-26-2012
Congratulations!
You mentioned before that the Modem is just a modem, and you supply the router?
Have you, by any chance, determined if the modem has a fixed external IP, or a dynamic one?
If my ever-so-long and frustrating work with a local wireless ISP bears no fruit relatively soon, I'm hoping to jump ship to Exede from Hughes, and if Exede offers a fixed IP so I can set up a VPN, I'd accelerate my plans...
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - Dick Moore - 04-26-2012
Latency is running 400-500msec -- same as most any satellite system.
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - Dick Moore - 04-26-2012
Yep -- you supply the router. At this moment I'm using a couple of old Buffalo WBR2-G54 set up in WDS mode to get from my office over to the house -- about 90 feet between routers as the crow flies.
I also have a couple of Netgear N300 series routers and I've got them configured in "wireless repeater" mode and will try them this afternoon to see if I can improve the speeds tot he rest of my network. They aren't bad now at 5-7Mbits/sec, but I'd like more.
Sorry Paul -- dynamic IP. I don't know if there is a VPN work-around or not.
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - cbelt3 - 04-26-2012
Thanks. Forwarded your comments to my Mom, who has Wild Blue, and is thinking about Exede.
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - Paul F. - 04-26-2012
Sorry Paul -- dynamic IP. I don't know if there is a VPN work-around or not.
That's OK.. there are definitely work-arounds!
Not having to use a work-around would have pushed up my schedule is all
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - LaserKun - 04-26-2012
Thanks for the report, Dick. I told a friend about this service, haven't heard from him yet, but glad to hear it is good.
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - Dick Moore - 04-26-2012
The Netgear WNR3500L & WNR2000v3 pair are working well in wireless repeater mode -- the ethernet-connected laptop hung on a LAN port on the remote repeater (2000v3) runs at about 60-70% of the speed of my Mac which is ethernet connected to the 3500L base station.
Downstream wi-fi connected devices are at about half the speed of the laptop, which is as expected.
Be nice to have a couple of the dual-band N routers, but that's too much money right now.
Re: Follow-up to Exede sat service - AllGold - 04-27-2012
The speed is very impressive. (Nothing you can do about the latency when the signal is bouncing off a satellite.) The price is very reasonable too. My only potential beef is the 7GB limit. That seems pretty low for such a high speed service but I suppose I can understand that the bird has limited capacity.
BTW, original thread here: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1348756