Hey... I have CenturyLink DSL at my house I am moving out of, and HughesNet at the farm I am moving to. When we moved in here, we got the DSL service. Both pairs in the six pair cable they run here (when I dispatched phone techs in Colorado, we called that a "drop" - ah, rural living) are not good enough for consistent DSL signal.
We have had very bad (slows down to a crawl, sometimes turns off entirely three, four, twelve hours at a time, never tests above 1.5 MBPS) DSL service here for almost EIGHT years. Since it is a slightly damaged sheath that allows liquid in, it is a very mild short to ground that can self repair temporarily by the added voltage used when they test the pair. So, every time I call to complain about this chronic problem, they exchange my modem and assure me that a tech will look into it.
Terrible service.
Eight years.
The good? With DSL service you don't worry about data limits, what you are streaming, what's left, disabling flash, disabling autoplay of videos, whether or not someone will forget to turn off WiFi on their cell phone... data is just always there, no worries (unless you are at my house, then you can expect two to twelve hours a day with no internet available on your always on, no limits data connection).
Getting used to HughesNet is a learning curve for me and it is frustrating me. I am figuring out a data leak right now. I also added unlimited data to two 4G-LTE phones to make our data habits not completely painful to change. Between HotSpot data available to share on those phones and our Primetime data from Hughes, we have 36GB per month whenever plus the 50GB at night. Won't be quite as unconcerned about what I do on the internet at our farm compared to the old place, but the new location required that I make the change.
