I have Hughes out at the ‘gulch’. While it is far from Cable or DSL in terms of speed, and has a few irritating quirks, I’m happy with it overall.
I CAN watch you-tube videos , with the occasional ‘stuttering’ during peak times, no problems late at night or mid day.
It is a completely self installed system, with the larger 1 meter dish and the 2 watt transmitter. I’ve only had one weather outage in 4 years with my system, and that is with a lot of pretty bad storms.
I do have a cellular modem that works out there... But the hughes dish is faster and more reliable.... I’m in direct sight of the cell tower, a mile away, but ever since AT&T took over the tower it has been neglected and only about half the performance as when Alltel operated the system.
Hughes is worth a look if you are at all handy, and willing to learn a bit. A few days on the internet, and you can be more competent with the system than most of the ‘professional’ installers.
Oh, and unless that mountain is moving around, or erupting plumes of volcanic ash, it is not responsible for intermittent connection problems. If you can lock on to the satellite at all, the mountain is not the problem.