On Jan 25, 2005, at 11:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Later in this thread, replying to Geoff, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
Cable & DSL are NOT available to me.
What are your actual bandwidth (throughput up and down) needs?
I get 500k to 1 meg downloads, I am not doing any up loads but plan says 125 to 250k upload, I would say 125 is probably closer, the weak link is the uploads the latency is there but very tolerable you can have 20 windows going if you want. Trust me going from 28K to 500K you notice the difference.
Anything faster than the 28800 connections I get now with my built in modems.
Satellite is, in general, so low performance, you might find that bonded ISDN or bonded V.90 might suffice. $$ vs throughput vs hassle.
It'll still be faster than what I have now.
I only had``28K at best and this is waayy better then that. I have been a happy customer, even during the hit, I was changed over in a day to a new bird. Star Band has excellent C/S at least with me.
Please let us know how things go... So few of us use satellite service, we're craving first-hand experience.
Will do.
My bottom line advice:
1) None of the satellite internet services are very good overall, so only consider them as a last resort, when other solutions aren't available.
True, last resort
2) Even when the satellite services are working "properly", their latency makes everything, except basic web surfing and downloading, virtually unusable.
True but that is what I need, access to the web for information, it runes iTunes fine, the movie trailers, its close to DSL.
Check the plans, the cost for the dish, pole, wire, modem $500.00. Install $300.00 per month $79.00Both of the above apply in my case.
I've since found out that 1) Starband does indeed have a "Mac-friendly" system, but they charge $30.00 more per month, and the system is more expensive upfront, and 2)
this gives me 500K download although I see 1 meg down frequently. Upload is 125 to 250, but I am not doing any of that.
This is the second plan, the have a cheaper one but is slower and made to soften the blow of the equipment and install
Yes and the bird your on could change, they use different birds for different areas and things can happen in space Star Band had a hit, but I was able to get the bird changed and up and running again in 1 day. There is also a company called Wild Blue and they "expected" to be online soon with 1.5 meg down and 500 uploadit looks like I'll have to use two satellite dishes as the tv & internet birds are about 18 degrees apart.
3) Because the satellite services all require an embedded PC, you're bringing a security hole into your home. Defend yourself by putting a real firewall between it and your LAN. My personal pref: an old Mac running IPNetRouter and IPNetSentry, but most off-the-shelf NAT Routers will do in a pinch.
First do not tell them your going wireless, they get real hinky about more then one computer at a time and may charge you, this is what the installer said. I am about to set up a airport extreme with the ethernet outlet on it also. I believe it should work. The 480 or 481 is a modem and a router in one. I still want the airport for the added protection and ease of no wires. You can use different computers and once set up as long as you disconnect turn it off or wait a few minutes and then reconnect any computerMy plan right now is to connect my AirPort Extreme base station to the DW6000; I was also wondering if I could use the ethernet port on an AirPort Express?
Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney (via webmail)
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