So Monsoon rolled in a few weeks ago, and like clockwork my satellite connection went to hell. Except I noticed that the actual connection at the modem didn’t suffer particularly. Usually it gets very slow to connect, very prone to drop out. But it didn’t do that. It just got very S-L-O-W. Like click a link and then read a book for a while until it loads, if it does – slow.
Meanwhile, up until yesterday Monsoon was kind of a bust. In fact for over a week the weather was gorgeous. Cleared up right after Landlady left, as per fairly normal. Beautiful calm skies, slow as molasses internet. Felt more like Wildblue was messing with me than that anything was wrong at the dish.
Then a couple of days ago Monsoon showed signs of wanting back into my life, and yesterday it struck with a big loud electrical overture followed by rain for at least five solid hours – and my connection’s suddenly working fine. In fact it’s rarely been faster. Suddenly I can watch Youtube vids.
One of these days I’m gonna get me one of those hotspot things, and ditch the satellite dish. Of course cell signal can be quite iffy out here too…
I had Wild Blue for two years. Every time it rained heavy, or snowed, or there was a temperature inversion it crapped out. I got rid of it as soon as I could.
I never had weather related trouble with WildBlue.
It was always the system saying that EVERY Farging Thanksgiving and into Christmas- I was maxing out my usage….no matter how little we used it.
F- Wild blue. Now that we need internet at the ranch, I went with Hughes.
Slow to connect\get a new site- but not Wild Blue *spit*.