[I see my hands]

Thanks! I'll look into the Direct TV Wildblue service. I had only been aware of Hughes satellite internet service but heard it had a bad "lag" problem. That would pretty much be unacceptable to me.

[Clairity]

Anything going to and from the satellite will have some lag problem, but it shouldn’t be too bad. Considering that you are “off the grid”, I would suggest trying it, they should give you some 30 day tryout or so, before you sign a long term contract or maybe there is no long term contract.

[tickles]

Wildblue (or Hughes) pay through the nose and get so so service. Any sat. service enforces their fair use policy. And regardless even if you pay for a higher band width you are going to slow down during peak times. In fact you will probably be lucky to get half the speed you are paying for on a consistent basis. (can you tell I’m not impressed with the contract I signed?) I actually checked my usage before leaving for a week, disconnected all cables to insure absolutely no usage for about 8 days, came back and the drop was really really small. But since I cannot get DSL out here I am stuck with this.

I can get 3g through my phones hot spot and that is faster then my land line, and even sometimes faster then my sat. but i have noticed a slow down in that to. I suppose as more people get their smart phones every thing will slow down, hey maybe my land line will be the better option someday since everything seems to be slowing down. LOL