When I worked for a local WISP, until about 6-12 months before I left, I would routinely tell people that, due to latency, reliability of the connection, consistency of quality, and customer service, our 1 Mbps plan was better than any satellite's 5 Mbps plan. This was my honest opinion.
After visiting some recent personal customers, I was blown away with the performance I was seeing from Exede and Dish. One of the customers said that her Dish connection would experience connectivity issues during rain, but the Exede customer said that her connection didn't go down even during bad weather.
So I would like some thoughts from the dslreports.com community regarding the general state of things today.
Of course FPS games and such are still not viable on a satellite connection, but what about everything else? Is connectivity still the issue it used to be? Has latency for things like Skype gotten any better? Are packet drops an issue? How consistent does the connection stay at 3 Mbps or more on any plan? What about 10 Mbps or more? Many rural WISPs find it hard to offer anything more than 5 Mbps on their best plan, with some not even achieving that; are they becoming less and less relevant? Any other thoughts?
Hopefully this is an okay forum location to post this topic in.
Full disclosure: I am asking so that I can update a blog post I wrote for my low-traffic business website, and I intend to post the link to this forum discussion. The post is here: http://www.pc-repairamedic.com/local/internet-provider-choices-for-hughes-and-seminole-counties/
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