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Story: BT satellite broadband gets cool reception

Posted by: Paul Taylor (Tuesday 20 July 2004, 12:11 PM)

I have the satellite connection in Belfast as i am just outside the 6km range of my exchange.The satellite has been installed since September 2002 and was upgraded recently 09/07/04 to the new platform supplied by intelsat.The service in my opinion is far too expensive as i pay 59.99 + vat per month for an average download speed of 25 KB/s.Why the service is call the 500 i am told is there may be burst speeds up to that,but big deal it is only for a split second.Also the speed does not increase later in the evening with less traffic,but again BT have told me the platform must have been busy.
The previous platform that was running was a lot faster,but was very restrictive in the amount of data that could be downloaded as BT introduced a Fair Share Policy which restricted your speed until your usage was below a certain limit(4GB pm cap but BT would not confirm this)
Overall yes i have an always on connection,but speed is very poor and at these prices,but just too expensive for the home user.It is a very business orientated market.
I wait for the extended ADSL reach to become available to all hopefully very soon once the trials are complete as this satellite conection will be in the bin.