Is there a good satellite ISP out there?

[Sam 8]

It appears that the phone company in this area is never going to remove the telegraph lines we must be using for phone service, judging on the breakdowns, failures, weather related problems, etc. that we have experienced over the last 30years. I am in dial-up limbo, and growing very weary of it.

WildBlue is no longer doing installs in my area, apparently due to lack of sufficent sat. coverage.
Can anyone suggest a reasonably priced Sat. ISP that has been around long enough to have a decent track record?

[D-Bamatech]

The most INFALLIBLE i have SCENE and installed is SKYWAY. It is a one way system (DL only) and the Upload is transfered through Ph lines to a uplink center. I witnessed 1.6 DL the very first one i installed a yr or so back.

D-way is over priced (start up costs) and has its problems w/ conflicts. Im Am Not a fan. Wildblue has its "quirks" also and they have over sold and have bandwidth problems curretly as you said. A lot of areas they will not allow New installs currently. If ya want to try one out that WILL NOT break your wallet.. Research SKYWAY USA. Now If you do A lot of Upload then you may not like it.
BUT as from my experience in this trade for yrs .. to me it is the less fallible and ive touched everything under the sun. Im sure here you'll find the D-way fans and the WB fans but i just see the one way system as something that doesnt cause frustration and has the least amt of "hick-ups". And it wont kill your wallet either.

[lee635]

I had the old one way direcpc a few years back. It used a dialup for uplink and the satellite for DL. It gave great DL speeds late at night, but was a bit pokey in the early evening.

They had a terrific service that you could "subscribe" to particular newsgroups, and they would automaticaly get loaded to your pc overnight. It was sort of like a "channel" in that you didn't have to connect the phone line, the software picked up the usenet feed automatically. I never could understand why that piece of the service didn't just take off with every usenet provider in the country? Why are usenet servers using big chunks of bandwidth to get all the new mesages from other servers when they could get them for $30 a month with direcpc. But alas, they dropped that part of the service.