WildBlue Satellite Speed Internet - Broadband National - To Order CALL 1-800-657-9614
WildBlue offers high-speed internet access via satellite to almost every corner of the United States. Imagine “always on,” lightning fast connections to the internet. No more dialing in; no more delays; no more wondering if high speed internet will arrive in your town. Get connected the way you’ve always wanted to: FAST!
WildBlue Communications, Inc. is a corporation based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The company offers satellite broadband Internet services to both home and business customers. WildBlue is one of the newer satellite Internet services, having begun operating in June 2005.
After nationwide beta testing, the first residential retail customers had WildBlue service installed at their home in June 2005. During the summer of 2005 a dealer network was established to provide installation and customer service to clients throughout the 48 contiguous United States.
WildBlue claims superior performance both in terms of upload and download speed through its use of newer satellite technology. Specifically, WildBlue uses the Ka band instead of the Ku band used by established competitors. For improved performance, it covers the U.S. and most of populated Canada with many "spot beams" instead of a single, broad beam covering the entire market. It has adopted DOCSIS technology to reduce costs while maintaining quality of service.
The maximum advertised transmission speed with the premium subscription is 1.5 megabits per second download and 256 kilobits per second upload. The satellite equipment costs approximately US$299, exclusive of the mandatory professional installation service.
Satellites
WildBlue uses the Ka-band exclusively for both the receiving end and the return path on two satellites using VSAT technology.
Anik-F2
This Telesat Canada-owned Boeing 702 Anik-F2 satellite has a Ka-band payload designed for and leased by WildBlue. It has four spot beams for a total of 38 transponders in the Ka-band. It also has C-band and Ku-band payloads for other customers. It is located at the 111.1° W, geostationary orbit slot.
WildBlue-1
WildBlue-1 is a purpose-built satellite built for use by the WildBlue service exclusively. It has 35 spot beams in the Ka-band. WildBlue-1, was launched on December 8, 2006 at 22:07 GMT aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5. WildBlue-1 is an LS-1300 was built by Space Systems/Loral and occupies the 111.0° W slot. WildBlue-1 is effectively co-located with Anik-F2, thus increasing service capacity without requiring customers to re-aim satellite antennas.
WildBlue-2
WildBlue-2 was cancelled before it was built.
Equipment
WildBlue uses a 28 × 26 in (508 × 660 mm) mini-dish and external satellite modem to bring their service to subscribers nearly anywhere in the 48 contiguous states. The modem connects to a PC's or Apple Macintosh's network card via 10BASE-T (RJ-45) cables, much in the way a cable or DSL modem would. The modem updates its firmware automatically.
Competitors
WildBlue competes with satellite Internet service providers Starband and Hughesnet. WildBlue distinguishes itself by exclusively using the Ka-band and a comparatively large amount of regionalized, high-power spot beams which both transmit and receive to more customers by re-using the same frequency ranges in different geographic regions.
Real-time interactive applications sometimes perform poorly through WildBlue internet connections (or any satellite connection) because of the actual distance of 23,000 miles resulting in a .12 second latency between satellite and ground stations. Other internet applications go unhindered by this detail.
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