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Moving...help with internet provider
asjdwf
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Hello all,
I am moving to the sticks and have a choice between Hughes Net Gen4 which I hear is horrible for gaming, and a place called WIFI Midwest which is a fixed wireless internet company. Below is what WIFI midwest offers:
Residential #2 1 - 3(computers) 1 Mbps(download) 512 k(upload) 2 Mbps (burst available) $54.95
Residential #3 1 - 5(computers) 2 Mbps(download) 512 k(upload) 3 Mbps(burst available) $64.95
Does either of these two options look like a good bet for gaming on WOW, Xbox live, PS3/PS4, and streaming movies? Please help I am sooooo confused LOL. Also, what does burst mean?
I am moving to the sticks and have a choice between Hughes Net Gen4 which I hear is horrible for gaming, and a place called WIFI Midwest which is a fixed wireless internet company. Below is what WIFI midwest offers:
Residential #2 1 - 3(computers) 1 Mbps(download) 512 k(upload) 2 Mbps (burst available) $54.95
Residential #3 1 - 5(computers) 2 Mbps(download) 512 k(upload) 3 Mbps(burst available) $64.95
Does either of these two options look like a good bet for gaming on WOW, Xbox live, PS3/PS4, and streaming movies? Please help I am sooooo confused LOL. Also, what does burst mean?
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Hughes looks like satellite internet, so yeah, it's going to be awful for gaming.
Fixed wireless is a pretty good method of internet for country areas actually, as they come out to your house and install a receiver on your roof to give you a solid signal.
"Burst" means that you won't get that speed all the time but that when downloading small files like software, you'll be able to get a quicker speed for a short period of time before it slows you back down. From a quick read of their website, it looks like their burst period is 240 seconds, which is four minutes.
So when you're downloading something, anything relatively small will download at 2mbps while your normal speed would be 1mbps. Or, for the more expensive plan, 3-2mbps.
You will not be able to stream movies with your internet, Youtube will be very hit and miss, and while you'll be able to game, you'll probably have issues if somebody else is trying to use the Internet at the same time.