Just got set up on satellite. Works great when it runs as they promised. Unfortunately, they seem to slowly degrade untill they barely beat a good dialup. Call 'em and they give a line of BS, but the connection mysteriously improves by a factor of 10.

My setup is kind of different. My neighbour bought the system, and was having massive troubles with networking his and his wifes PC's using a wireless USB connection. We ditched it and wired thier house with a 100base-T network. We then got the ides of sharing the connection, and splitting the cost since my phone was almost constantly busy with the amount of downloading that I do, not to mention that my best possible connection was only 26.4K. We then investigated laying a line between the two houses, but the distance was over 600 ft, and crossed two other properties. We finally elected to go wireless ethernet, which is working rock solid. My neighbour finished fixing the last of the bugs the other day, so now I'm gonna kill the dialup account. So, now I'm getting the high speed (when it actually is running high speed), for the same cost as dialup.