Now Available for us! 12Mbps Internet Connection

Exede (Viasat1 satellite) is now offering 12 Mbps for our area

http://www.viasatresidential.com/exede/home

Our local dealer is

Mountain Home Entertainment Center
27122 Main St Unit 225
Conifer, CO 80433 Zoom
Phone: (303) 838-4003
Email:

Please humor my ignorance, but what is Mbps? Is this megabits or megabytes?

in the spirit of teaching "how to fish"... Google it and you'll learn something new

As a point of contention... just because I think many of these such things are a scam to get people to pay more...


I run an office of 200+ computer users on a 10-meg connection. Realistically the reason that things like DSL appear to be extremely slow is that your download speed isn't at the 1.5-5 Mbps download speed that they're promising, or perhaps because the upload speed is extremely limited on DSL and can also cause your connection to appear very slow, not because you actually need more download bandwidth. Unless you're streaming media to every corner of your house, consider each package carefully.

I'm always blown away when companies like Comcast come out and tell you that, as long as you pay them more, they'll offer you speeds like 20Mbps!

If my 200+ business-users never max a 10Mbps connection... what are the odds a home-user will max one? (full disclosure: we do block most streaming media like Pandora, etc.) I pay for a larger upload speed for my house than most users, but this is because I have a full VPN setup, and will sometimes stream media, pull files, etc., from my server at home... otherwise, I'd have one of their basic packages, and even as a heavy media user, I'd probably never max it, either.

Arlen wrote: Please humor my ignorance, but what is Mbps? Is this megabits or megabytes?

I always confuse them too.... even in my post just now!

Mbps = megabits per second
MBps = megabytes per second

and yep, there's a big difference in their meaning... and for that I'll agree with Wily, lots of math out there already on that

they are not asking you to pay more for higher speeds. ONE SPEED 12Mbps. The price difference is in what plan you want as regards to amount you wish to download per month. I installed Net Meter on our home network to monitor our usage over the past 6 months to make sure we know what we use.

here's the plan page for zip code 80433

http://www.viasatresidential.com/exede/ ... eZip=80433

Arlen wrote: Please humor my ignorance, but what is Mbps? Is this megabits or megabytes?

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+Mbps%3F

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: they are not asking you to pay more for higher speeds. ONE SPEED 12Mbps. The price difference is in what plan you want as regards to amount you wish to download per month. I installed Net Meter on our home network to monitor our usage over the past 6 months to make sure we know what we use.

here's the plan page for zip code 80433

http://www.viasatresidential.com/exede/ ... eZip=80433

I wasn't meaning to bash this company or that company, I'm sorry if it came off wrong... I just meant the industry in general usually does the upsell on data that will never be used. I would also make a point to be concerned about maximum usage rates for downloads. Comcast effectively "cuts you off" at 250GB a month (usually just slows your speed), but I've gotten close to hitting a few times at home!

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: in the spirit of teaching "how to fish"... Google it and you'll learn something new

You were placing an endorsement or add for this company and I was trying to politely ask you to disclose that this was megabits. I was fully aware of the meaning and difference of terms.

Your less than polite response was not a plus for the company that you were plugging.

It was correctly identified, and I saw it as providing information to the community, rather than a plug. YMMV