I have had satellite internet and it does work but there are down sides to it. The price is coming down all the time and it is now comparable to mobile data prices. The main down when using it is ping times. Ping time is the time taken to send a small data package to a given site and have it returned to you. To get a ping time data goes to the satellite then to the given website, then back to the satellite and then back to you. A decent time would be 25 millisecs but on sat internet it will be anything over 750ms, a huge difference. Upload and download speeds are lightening fast but you need to remember that both you and the other end are sending a signal into space and that takes time, almost a second in fact. This means that things like skype or voip is difficult to say the least because of the time lag. Personally I would not have it again unless it was the only option. As an only option it is a godsend.