Found out the hard way that Directv does not do internet in rural areas. They BUNDLE with a “third party,” (Hughesnet) but cannot transfer personal information. So you have to establish your own account with the”bundled” provider. That makes two bills and higher costs. Satellite internet is marginal at best and goes downhill from there because of weather. Would not recommend either company!
You are correct wrt vast Internet services. In the past, I’ve installed both commercial and residential vsat rigs and have first hand experience with the issues, namely:
1. Godawful latency. The best commercial rigs managed 250-300 msec, while residential rigs were typically 1200-1800 msec.
2. Gross asymmetry wrt tx/rx speeds. Sure, you might get 25 mbps down from HughesNet, but never better than ISDN speeds up (128 kbps) on a good day. This plays hell with any website or application designed for conventionally shaped traffic. Some sites will just time out owing to the asymmetry.
3. Extreme sensitivity to weather. The transmitters for residential rigs are pretty weak, relatively speaking. A typical commercial transmitter will be 5 watts or better. Resodential, usually less than a watt, so their ability to punch through weather is pretty weak.
4. Vsat companies. They all suck. Horrible customer service from turd world call centers who are little better than script readers with virtually no understanding of the product they support.
5. Service contract fine print. Service sucks? Too bad. They never guarantee anything.