Hello, i came accross your site and you people look like the people who could help me.
I currently live in NJ, and for personal reasons I am forced to move to Maryland. The section i am moving too is very rural and iu cannot get cable, dsl, or ISDN. (I was suprised about the ISDN, but it looks like most of the major providers are grandfathering ISDN in maryland. Which means they will support current customers, but will not accept new one's.) So i am stuck with dial up (and in my area, the lines are not updated. so im stuck with 28.8 Kbps) and it looks like i am going to get DirecWay aka. Hughes net. My big problem is that i want to play video games (BF2, CS:Source, etc.) but you cannot do this with satellite. Here is my possible solution.
I was talking to a buddy of mine and i were talking and we were thinking about maybe bridging a dial up connection and the dw connection. I could use the DirecWay's bandwidth and the dialups lan lines to lower my latency.

What do you guys think? and maybe if this works, all of you who miss online games could do this too.

wildblue seems nice comparing to DirecWay....only if they do not oversell their bandwidth

I have had DW and Wildblue i would go with wildblue.

Forgot to thank you guys for welcoming me!

Should I aim to get the fastest download speed? And is there a large difference between the different plans? (for wild blue, after reading reviews of WB, its a must have over DW)

Welcome to the forum drquack11223 
Good luck on your choice. 

you assume right. call em up and ask i guess.

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Hi, before you commit to either satellite provider you need to consider the Fair Access Policy.

 WildBlue FAP Monthly Usage Thresholds
                                         Value Pak   Select Pak  Pro Pak 
Upload Threshold (MB) 1         2,300         3,000         5,000
Download Threshold (MB) 2     7,500         12,000       17,000

1 Upload Threshold is the volume of data that can be uploaded during the previous 30 days before the Fair Access Policy may restrict the user’s speeds.
2 Download Threshold is the volume of data that can be downloaded during the previous 30 days before the Fair Access Policy may restrict the user’s speeds.

Go to  http://fairaccess.hughesnet.com/  and check out hughes FAP and you will clearly see which one is the better choice.

It sux when you pay so much for satellite internet and have to really watch how much we download. I was with wildblue and seems like I was always restricted with dial-up speeds because of the FAP. Switched to DirecWay pro and only been restricted once but was lifted within' 2 hours.