We have just had Tooway Direct install Tooway 18 (18MBps download and 5 or 6 upload).

We are in a rural area with max 1MPs download and 240KBps upload through telephone line . The copper wire broadband crashed many times a day, when neighbours on zilch. No 3G.

It was a leap of faith having read about the new Ksat satellite. We are absolutely thrilled. There is a slight lag but then everything loads fast. We can watch iplayer with good resolution and I can upload photos in large file size easily and quickly. Skype works beyond expectations, no noticeable lag at all and full screen excellent resolution picture on the video calls.

Wonderful! The package we went for is £55 pm http://www.toowaydirect.com/purchase/

Life revolutionised!
SNG Hampshire

You certainly chose the right package, and it is good that you can use VOIP. I chose the £25. package, with the same satellite, which is not so brilliant. I have just used the Skylogic speed test and these gives the Download as 7.7Mbps and the Upload as 2.1Mbps causing a delay of just over three quarters of a second.
With the cache cleared most pages take from 15 to 20 seconds to load, but in practice the text loads quite quickly, usually in 7 to 10 seconds, and surfing feels reasonably smooth. I have been told that satellite BB is equivalent to a ADSL connection of 2Mbps, which is probably about right. It is not perfect but I am reasonably pleased. It is a big relief not to need to watch for the connection dropping out, much less stress.
The installer provided a UK address for free (some don't) so the BBC iPlayer is fine and downloads are very quick after ADSL ,so no need to make a cup of tea.
With delay of three quarters of a second it is unlikely that VOIP, will work very well, I think the recommended maximum is half a second.
One other point for anyone considering ditching ADSL, the dish is pretty big, 30inches diameter, you may not want to put it on the front of your house, unless you have a mansion.

I am living in the region which is highly effected by rain clouds.
In this kind of areas, satellite broadband will never work efficiently.

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Hi All,
You need line of sight, Toowaydirect have help on there website, ours was 30deg elevation by 169. If your internet is toobad there is a Smartphone Android APP "KA-Sat Finder". that's useful
We recently joined in September the 18mbs Toowaydirect Satellite Broadband feed, I agree with other users, it surfs about the same speed as 1.2 ADSL-2 line. 6sec to open a homepage, and 10 to open a never seen before page.

A usefull tip is opening first a complicated HomePage like www.talktalk.co.uk to be useful, the short uncomplicated pages sometimes time out initiating an Internet connection. I have also found this broadband is not happy with MS Outlook and iTunes, so I don't use them. We just use a Web based email, and iTunes well.

This type of Broadband is great for anything over 3mb, computer updates fly, Smart mobiles updating over WiFi is wonderfull, and full 290mb Smartphone upgrades done recently an absolute luxury.

We went for the Self Install dragging my neighbor into help I'm not good on ladders. The equipment is well made, But don't over-tighten the dish that it distorts.
We didn't use the purchasable router its a Cisco/Linsky e1200, instead went for the Tp-Link Wr2543ND. with good reason.

So Is it worth changing, for us yes, I think if you can get anything close to 1.9mbs from your exchange then perhaps not, Satellite BB is expensive, and the limited capacity soon goes when you find a use.

Thank you Forum, I eventually got to the right place.

Just self-installed Avonline's (Tooway) new unlimited 20Mbps satellite service. Only been running a day but pleasantly surprised by the ease of the install and the performance.

I got this for my business needs as I need to upload large files on a regular basis and the 6mbps upload ability (about 5mbps in reality) is great. For day-to day home internet browsing I still use my BT ADSL service (about 3.5mpbs down, 0.5 up.)

Got the satellite broadband on a 12 month contract by which time FTTP should finally have come to my area and I can stop the ADSL and Sat services - and buy some filler for those drill holes in the side of my house!

In reply to a post by chrigurndevon:

Just self-installed Avonline's (Tooway) new unlimited 20Mbps satellite service. Only been running a day but pleasantly surprised by the ease of the install and the performance.

I got this for my business needs as I need to upload large files on a regular basis

Nice bit of proactive work there.

Dear Chrigurndevon,

Would you mind me asking how you find the Latency for surfing??, I noticed you say you use your Bt still. We usually check our speed using the Satellite speed tester at:-

http://speedprobe.skylogicnet.com/lite

Our average is 720. Also what router did you use??

Thank you.