I have had Direcway bi-directional satellite since April and am fairly happy with it. I have the DW6000 modem/router unit that feed my LinkSys WRT54G and have two Macs, a p4 running WinXP and two Linux boxes plus a Linux laptop and a Netgear Print Server on the system. Every thing seems happy with the setup.
Really heavy rains generally means no service for 10-25 minutes and similar weather in Las Vegas (where the network head is) means the same. I have never seen an outage over an hour. My download speeds are on the order of cable speeds and upload is slower but At least as good as most DSL. I paid 4100 up front and will pay $100/month for 15 months then $60/month. The alternative was $600 up front and $60 month ... Since I was paying $52 a month just for my second phone line, this price is fine by me ... Cheers ... BBR ... Underhill Center, VT On 9/1/04 3:20 PM, "Sharpe, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone tried Satellite ? Dish or Direct-Way ? > > Richard A Sharpe > (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2 > Amherst Technologies > 40 Continental Blvd > Merrimack, NH 03054 > PHONE .......(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031 > Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785 > FAX ...........(603) 578-1072 > EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Tenemos que tener fe" ("We must have faith") > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Jeff Macdonald >> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:57 PM >> To: Bill McGonigle >> Cc: GNHLUG Discussion >> Subject: Re: Verizon offering 3Mbps >> >> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:24:07 -0400, Bill McGonigle >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Today I was reading about DSL out of 'remote terminals'. I >> guess they >>> can put a DSLAM in the neighborhood boxes that fiber optics land at. >>> >> >> I believe that the 3Mbps doesn't work with the remote >> terminals. Got any URLs? I was wonder what that was all about. >> >> -- >> Jeff Macdonald >> Ayer, MA >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss >> >> > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss