[Womble]

We are on a 3G mobile dongle, which isn't too bad (1 to 2 Mb/s and 15GB/mth for £18).

We recently looked into satellite packages, and though obviously expensive compared with BT, I didn't think the costs were TOO horrific. For example, a 10GB per month connection giving up to 22 Mb/s download and 6 upload now costs £29 per month plus £150 installation. It also gives unlimited downloads overnight, so if you can schedule updates etc, that saves some allowance.

All I'm saying is that prices have dropped considerably over the last 5 years, whilst performance has increased, so if you haven't checked recently, it might be worth revisiting.

[ramon]

The cost of Satellite broadband has fallen over the last few years. I am now in 20Mb/s download but this is not noticieably faster than the 6Mb/s speed I was on before and is probably equivalent to 2Mb/s on a landline. There is always a latency problem with satellite broadband. 10GB per month is also a quite limited data allowance.
However satellite broadband has certainly made life easier for us when no alternative option exists and so far it has been very reliable.

[Kimbo]

Think I shall take another look at these. Thanks

[Ghdp]

My new satelite broadband offers 25 MBT of data at £60 per month (and £150 set up cost) BUT in the first month i have to top that up as the data allowance was easily used up. I think the first month was heavy because I had so much updating to do as I had been off line for weeks. I cannot manage without it but £70 per month is three times my old BT rate.