As Toby says, satellite broadband suffers the same as any other Satellite communications. As long as you have clear line-of-sight to the satellite (elevation of 33.1º, Azimuth 184.9º at 49º 24’ North, 14º 42’ East), everyday communications shouldn’t be a problem. If there’s heavy weather about and a storm cloud passes between your receiver and the satellite, the signal may go down.
Our dish had to be hidden from general view so has been placed low on the blind side of our chimney stack. Under normal circumstances, it can ‘see’ over the ridge of the roof fine but if we get snow fall of more than about 4 inches, it ‘blinds' the dish until the snow thaws or I get out there with a hose, a jet and a supply of warm water. Stood a little too close the first time; Avalanche! On Thursday, 13 March 2014 08:08:35 UTC, virginia wrote: > > We live at Broad Oak Brede, 6 miles from Rye, Hastings and Robertsbridge. > Our broadband is very poor. We can't use BBC iPlayer because it stutters > and stops. It just about copes with downloading papers and email. Is > there any way we could speed it up - a gizmo or booster we could buy - > until such time that BT gets its act together and improves the service? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
