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I live out in the country where I live. There is no such thing as cable TV or internet. I only have Satellite TV and Internet! I lam very pleased with my service.
Now if you are looking to satellite to be the same as cable internet. It is not going to be the same. If you have cable in your area then you probably should have went with cable.
Satellite does have its good parts. When storms tear up cable lines and service is out for days or even weeks. Satellite will be working because you can use a generator to make it work. The bad side about satellite is it wont work during heavy rain and you must keep the snow cleaned off your dish.
I am still thankful and happy though to have the same good things other folks have out in the country where I live.
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Then again, even 4.4 Mbps is more than fast enough for my everyday internet activities. In fact, I have found that just 150 kbps (0.15 Mbps, about 3X dial up) is plenty for my everyday internet activities. However, I also keep tight control over how my programs are set up and what they are allowed to do, as in they are not allowed to burn up my data at their leisure.
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As to why I limit the speed of the virtual network adapter, it is so that websites are not able to burn up my data, which most will always try to do, because of their ads and other streaming garbage. It has been said that various programs and browser extensions will supposedly block that stuff but the creeps who maintain those websites always seem to find ways to get around those programs, or they make it so that their website will refuse to work if you have those programs. I set the speed as low as I can such that all the websites I use will work properly. I have found that 150kbps (0.15 Mbps) or about 3X dial up works quite well.
Another benefit is that a slow internet connection makes it harder for malware to invade if you are by chance unlucky enough to run across it while surfing the internet.
However, I am never stuck with that slower speed limit. I can lift it any time I want and for however long I want. Typically, I only feel the need to do so when I'm downloading large files. For example, about 3 days ago, I downloaded the entire KDE3 repository for openSUSE 42.2, around 1.25 GB of data and about 1500 files, in about 30 minutes. This comes to an average speed of about 700 Mbytes a second or about 9.8 Mbps. However, during that download, I saw speeds as fast as 1.7 Mbytes a second and as slow as 250 Kbytes a second. In other words, the speed constantly fluctuates but the average is still more than reasonable. That is how internet connections in general work, and not just satellite.
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