I have had Wildblue since I moved into the woods here in 2006. I had cable where I used to live and loved that, but no DSL or cable back here. I got it with realistic expectations, and aside from some equipment issues eraly on, I am happy with the performance for the most part. It sure beats dial up. On heavy wet snows, once in a while I do have to go out on the roof and clean the dish off. I assume any satellite is going to have that issue, although I don't have a problem with the Direct TV dish. They are separate with the Wildblue having it's own dish.
The bandwidth limit sucks, but I have only gone over once, and that was from my ex's daughter downloading videos all weekend. Need less to say I was pissed as I work from home and have to send files out all the time.
Took like 3 weeks for the speed to get back to normal, but they are changing that also. I have the business plan with limits of 17 down, 5 up. Its usually the down that gets used more, as I watch youtube, videos, listen to music etc.
The good news: Wildblue has merged with Viastat and they just launched the most powerful satellite there is in space. They say it is (supposedly)more powerful then all the other put together. So I will be staying with Wildblue unless cable or DSL comes back here. All the satellite internet providers are fairly expensive. My plan is $79.95 per month. Prolly stick with the comparative when I get on the new bird. The new top one is $129.00 a month I think, and you can watch movies, netflix etc on that one. I have not need for that. They supposedly are going to be working on the VOIP capability also.
Not sure about gaming, I used to be able to play less demanding online games,. but they raised the ping and hosed that. With the new bird, gaming will be possible, but due to latency, unless your playing against other satellite players, you will be way behind and at a huge disadvantage, and be dead most the time.
My neighbor's kid had the wireless, and said it ain't no better than satellite back here, same connection, weather issues etc. Mine will go out in real bad storms, and since my beam originates in Texas, I can have great weather here and still lose it once in a while when Texas or down south is getting pounded by bad weather. All in all, its not bad, and better than dial up.
The other issue with wireless is the bandwidth limit is far less than satellite i think. I need what I have for work.
Hope this helped.
Good luck.
Here is a link to Viastat & info on the new bird & pricing.
http://www.viasat.com/news/announcing-exedesm-viasat-12-mbps-high-speed-broadband-service-for-50