I would never give up cable or DSL for satellite internet service. Hell I wouldn't give up a good dial up for satellite. Never.
I had satellite for 2 years (just got rid of it) and the uploads are terrible. I was lucky to get 20kb uploads on a good day. Latency.....try pings of 720+ ms average, NEVER lower than 700ms. And satellite sucks for anything other than HTTP. FTP? Good luck, hehe.
The key wording both providers use is "up to" meaning they don't promise any speed.
And at least your getting service calls, lol. When satellite goes down, good luck getting any help at all.
The only time (IMHO) satellite makes any sense is if you are in a location where you can't get decent dial up/cable/DSL service.
<< im quite tired of the outages and service calls >>
Hehe, don't say I didn't warn ya.
Cheers........
Hanover