Wow, we're getting a lot of inaccurate information in this thread.
No, we're not. You're just reading it incorrectly.
It may help to hear from a longtime user of Hughes Network System's DirecPC and DirecWay broadband Internet access products and services.
We read your original post in this thread. No need to repeat your "credentials".
I've been using a DW6000 for well over a year, and I can tell you that it is a totally apolitical device.
Never said it wasn't.
Prior to the DW6000 -- and we're talking consumer/home use machines -- DirecPC/DirecWay one-way or 2-way "modems" required a Windows PC to act as the "host", as I said. The DW6000 is self-hosted, and will accept any Mac or PC client you connect to it. Burrow into www.direcway.com to learn more.
Prior to the DW60xx were abominations like the DW4020 - which were simply embedded PCs in a pretty box, running ICS, that DirecWay sold as "modems" or "terminals". It was prior to THAT, when a descrete (not bundled) PC with Hugh's proprietary ISA card and software was required.
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It's a very simple thing for me to swap out OS9/OSX Macs on my test bench and hook them up, one after the other, to the Internet. They get their IP addresses on my local subnet automatically. Windows ICS isn't needed. DAVE isn't needed. DW6000 doesn't care. It couldn't be easier and simpler.
This is where you just don't understand what was previously posted in this thread. Nowhere in any place does anyone (moi) say that YOU have to run ICS or any sort of product like DAVE.
The DW4020 *RUNS* ICS. *YOU* don't need to run it, because the box already runs it for you. ICS is the *basis* of its routing capabilities. DITTO for the DW60xx (albeit apparently a more sophisticated version of NAT is being used within, over Windows).
Jim, given your "credentials"... Please do some digging with your "sources" and find out exactly what's in that DW6000 box -- what version of Windows, what processor & speed, etc. T'would be interesting to know such details.
My average download speeds are in the 500-600 kilobits per second
Good to hear. YMMV. None of the tests *I* saw came close to this. And my comments about the latencies making the service unusable for (non-web surfing and downloading tasks) stand.
Unlike cable modems, DirecWay does have a bandwidth use policy called Fair Access Policy or FAP. I've exceeded its limits only once in the last year
In my last detailed review of DirecWay, in 2003, the throttles were so low they left me laffing. $$$$/mo for sub-V.90 speeds! LOL What are they currently?
Despite what a poster quoted below says, I have had absolutely no problems or other downtime caused by DirecWay's automatic updating of the DW6000's software.
Good. YMMV.
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- Dan.
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