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Brian, Champion
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You shouldn't have signed up for the service. Seems easy to me. And don't tell me you had no other choice. Life is full of choices. You made one, you're unhappy with the decision you made and somehow someone else us responsible for it?
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Brian, Champion
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It's not that the market is closed to competition it's that there isn't a market at all and all the open competition laws in the land won't make it profitable for a provider to drag cables the three miles from the nearest access point.
BTW, I'm not complaining. I like my life and where I live. If satellite TV and Internet is the price I pay for my lifestyle then I'm pretty fortunate, indeed.
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If you want unlimited data and no other ISP is available, then dialup would be your only other option. Me, personally, I will take Exede. It is far better than nothing.
BTW - I use the internet daily at home. Kids use it for school. We use our cell devices for social network browsing (grandafthered unlimited data Sprint plan). Watch a movie or two a night a week after midnight. Upload and download cloud files (after midnight). Do Windows and Virus updates (after midnight as well).
I still have 10.9 GB of data left with 18 days to go in the month. It takes getting used to but you can still have a relatively normal digital life with a few trade-offs.
I wish I had unlimited high-speed cable, but I do not so I will live with what I have.
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Jeff, I know just what you are talking about. Moving into the new house was really close to not happening. I was sure I would find something close to what I had with suddenlink, 50 megs of unlimited service, and only had the 50 megs for about a month. The only big thing is the down loads. I can search what ever and really not notice any difference, where it hits me is downloading. I now try to down load after midnight. Then another thing was we had a VOIP phone system. I had over $500.00 invested in this service. Phones in every room, as many people could call out at the same time. We could transfer calls to different rooms. If some on left the house they could have there calls forwarded right to their cell phones and not bother any calls already on a call. It was amazing set up. And cheap. We was looking like .001 cents per minutes or maybe less. It was the way to go. I don't mind it at all, speed is not a issue other then for down loads. I think Exedel is great, it has not been a problem with me, but I am missing so much. I have all theses smart TV's and stuff and cant use it, so as cable or phone internet comes through my area, I will have to tell Exedel good bye. Not because of the service, the speed, its the unlimited is what I am missing. But what did we do when we didn't have internet? One thing our family is getting more group time. I think that is the best thing of all. The family time, what is sad, it took the internet to show me we was not spending enough time with each other. Maybe keep it and get rid of the cell phones. We do have good phone cell service. Just think of the fun live we would have together if we didn't have cell service. The new technology is taking over our families. Country living is fun, we walk through the woods and actually talk to each other. Maybe this is what we needed, and others should see what it don't to the families.
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As far as VOIP you could do this to a Vonage VOIP Gateway.

What I did was unlock the gateway and adjust the SIP settings to work with Google voice. The setup works just there was way to much jitter in the connection for good voice communications. Maybe if I had actual Exede VOIP and the correct SIP settings I could get better VOIP results. Actually I might try the setup again because I was messing with all this before Exede even offered VOIP service, maybe they have adjusted everything now.
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Once I set it up to record during the free zone times, whatever I recorded is on my hard drive and I can watch anytime without using any data allowance.
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Brian, Champion
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As for VOIP, all of them will use data EXCEPT Exede Voice and, it is much lower priced than landline service.
Brian, Champion
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Try it:
"Store all your information in the cloud. It will be accessible from everywhere!" becomes, "Store all your information somewhere on the Internet that sucks bandwidth. It will be accessible from everywhere!"
Even better, "The cloud is great!" becomes "Somewhere on the Internet that sucks bandwidth is great!" See the problem????
I've been using satellite Internet for 35 months; Wildblue and now Exede. I'm happy with it. Would I rather have a fire-hose sized pipeline flooding my Internet experience with Exabytes of data? Sure I would!!!
But then, I'd like to have city water and sewer, a mailbox that wasn't 2/3 of a mile away, and a mall that wasn't twenty miles away. And I'd like to be handsome. Yes, that too. I'd like to be handsome.
Oh wait...Screw all that. I'll take living in the country, surrounded by trees at the end of a really long driveway where I can't see, and can rarely hear, my neighbors. I'll accept that in exchange for that lifestyle I get a garden hose sized Internet experience and I have to treat every byte of data as a precious resource.
But I'd still like to be handsome.
Here's an offer for you!!! If you, like me, live in a place where SATELLITE is your ONLY option for Internet service then I'll pay for you to switch to any of those other options.
If you, unlike me, had other options for Internet service then please consider that, perhaps, YOU made a bad decision and it's time for YOU to accept responsibility and it's time for YOU start managing your data as the precious resource it is.
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Read this then you'll start to have a clue: https://www.viasat.com/files/assets/news/web/Fact%20Sheet%20High-Cap_Sat_VS-1.pdf
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