Originally Posted by Acreo Aeneas

Bucklin, your best bet is to ask over at Broadband Reports. The users and techs over there could give you a better impression.

That is why I asked, just to make sure what he was asking about.
Here is a link to the forums about the different sat providers.

I was actually working at a park in Northern VA and kept pushing them to get internet for the staff that lived onsite. The stupid bitch they put in charge of getting it done (a office person) didn't listen to my advice and went with WildBlue Sat service. It sucked ass.

One of the main reasons we got it was so that during storms we could look at the weather online and see what was going on so we could keep our visiting school groups in shelter and other stuff. Guess what happens to Sat. service in a bad storm or even just think clouds/fog. No or crappy service.

And forget gaming on it. Ping time was beyond belief. I'm talking about when I would run speedtest.net, my ping would be between 1,300 and 10,000. I'm not joking. Now, once the data got back to your computer the page would load fast. But from the time you clicked on a link to the time that fast page load would happen could be 10 sec. or more. No way you could game on that, as the guy your shooting at would be on the other side of the map by the time you fired.

So, just saying, if it is a absolute LAST LAST LAST resort, it would be better than dialup, but not going to work for gaming.

And last time I was trying to fix the constant outages, even on clear days, the forums I linked to were full of very unhappy customers.