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I have had Starband internet service for over 14 months and I like it. I live too far away for any other system and my dial up modem topped out at 26.4kbps due to poor quality phone lines.

Dish Network and Starband has a package deal that gave us hundreds of TV and Audio channels for 40 $/mo. with internet capabilities for another 60 $/mo. That seems like a lot until you count what we cancelled to balance it out. The second phone line was 25 $/mo.: The ISP was 20 $/mo. We cancelled two cable TV connections at 28 $/mo. (one for me and one for my mom next door). Therefore we cancelled $25 + $20 + $28 + $28 for a total of $106.00 of cancellations and replaced it with $100 of new monthly charges. After we added another 5 $/mo. for the local channels we are still breaking even.

We have at several times as many TV channels and my internet speed averages around 600 to 700 kbps. I don't have a downside unless you count the couple of times that snow settled on the dish and goofed up the reception until I cleared it off.

Check out Starband.net, I don't think that you will be sorry.

(No, I am not connected with them in any fashion outside of being a happy customer)

The financials don't work well for me since I would still need my second phone line and don't have satelliite or cable TV (and don't want it).

How serious is the snow problem? We tend to get a bit from time to time here in Minnesota. 17" in some areas yesterday.