Satellite Broadband

[tut]

Somebody else will answer that Craig as kids are data eaters.

I am on 25GB/month but was going to start off on 40. Give them their due, they suggested that I start on 25 and I could then upgrade to 40 if I need more. As I was on Sky unlimited I never knew what I used. I get unlimited Data between 0000 and 0700 so I can use that for downloading films, i.e. 4GB HD for Verian, but Netflix during the day would be live down streaming.

Just know I love it, been stuttering along and having to accept it, now I can watch anything in HD and have no "on the edge of a signal" downtime. Paying £45/month for my deal compared to free Sky, but as I said, I can not take it with me.

tut

[tut]

Would be good to cut down on this latency lag Robin, what are the chances of discovering Worm Holes in the near future or even exceeding the speed of light, can not be that difficult.

tut

[greyrigg]

Glad to see this is working okay, our 'rural' broadband is rubbish and I have been swithering about going the satellite route as well.

I think I'll give it a go now.

Thanks test pilots

Malcolm

[tut]

Read my post just made on the 65" Monitor thread Malcolm.

tut

[r10crw]

Somebody else will answer that Craig as kids are data eaters.

I am on 25GB/month but was going to start off on 40. Give them their due, they suggested that I start on 25 and I could then upgrade to 40 if I need more. As I was on Sky unlimited I never knew what I used. I get unlimited Data between 0000 and 0700 so I can use that for downloading films, i.e. 4GB HD for Verian, but Netflix during the day would be live down streaming.

Just know I love it, been stuttering along and having to accept it, now I can watch anything in HD and have no "on the edge of a signal" downtime. Paying £45/month for my deal compared to free Sky, but as I said, I can not take it with me.

tut

So anyone else know what they use?

[greyrigg]

I'll maybe wait until the kids leave home then Tut.

Slow BB reduces their enjoyment of home and it could speed them on their way.

We do only get about 0.5-0.9 mb at home just now so not much use for anything really. Updates take forever, and youtube doesn't even work without buffering.

Malcolm

[robin]

Craig, over summer we have loads of people in the house using the broadband (lodger, kids, kids friends); as far as I know our 20mbit link (it's actually 18 I think) has enough bandwidth, but what I find is that the router overheats and flakes out (piece of crap that came free from PlusNet). So I would assume a working sat link like Tut's will be more than enough for your needs and when H.265 comes along, video streaming will half in size for the equivalent movie (your kids won't know or care whether they are watching HD, 4K, etc. - put another way, the kids will happily watch something at standard res rather than not watch it at all!).

Cheers,
Robin

[tut]

H.265 sounds as if it could be good news in my case Robin, as I am concerned about the data usage in just two days.

The kids have left now, but I am just hoping that the 15GB that was used in one day was purely down to them, the only way I could work that out was that the two Netflix films were in HD and 4GB each, though that still leaves another 7GB used.

tut

[campbell]

Charge them!!

[tut]

Forgot to tell them that I do not have unlimited anymore.

tut

[robin]

Tut, 15GByte in one day is quite a high usage - if you can monitor your usage somehow it might be worth leaving all the computers on but don't actually do anything (no browsing, no streaming, etc.) for an hour or two and see how much gets used in that time. If it's more than about 1megabyte you might well have some virus type thing going on. The other thing that might have used a load of bandwidth is windows update/download of windows10. I don't think you've got any windows machines anymore, though?

BTW, 15GByte is 1.3Mbit/s every second of every hour of the day ... that's more than your old link could ever deliver

[tut]

My new Macbook 12", iPad mini, Verian's iPad e-mail only. Mine is on the Net from 0800-0000, mostly e-mail and this place plus googling, iPad is TV when in bed, hardly used during the day. No music, games, odd download for Verian, so hardly intensive usage.

Shall try a complete download from midnight of Series 5 of "The Shield" tonight, around 5GB, to check out their no night time limit. Using Sky at present at .8mb for the mundane tasks so hoping the mix will work. One click changeover from this to 20mb which it has been holding for almost all the time, which is good news.

Have a 14 day cancellation policy so need to try and cover all aspects before then.

tut

[r10crw]

Tut, have tried Skype or similar? Maybe latency makes that a no no? Cheers robin for the figures, I'm gonna see if I can monitor our in the router somehow.

[campbell]

I may be wrong but latency affects connection startups between request to receipt of webpages (for example). But it doesn't affect / prevent stream exchanges (like Skype) once they're established.

Robin will be along in a mo to correct me

[neil]

I may be wrong but latency affects connection startups between request to receipt of webpages (for example). But it doesn't affect / prevent stream exchanges (like Skype) once they're established.

Robin will be along in a mo to correct me

It wont affect the stream once its going but if you want to have a conversation could get confusing - just treat it like a walkie talkie and you'll be fine!