On 23 Oct 2002, Thom Paine wrote:
> My parents live in North Bay, Ontario. They managed to get a second
> phone line strictly for internet. I've been looking at the Bell option
> for a while but still decided against it. My mom has never had high
> speed, so she really doesn't know what she is missing.
>
> DWay would have been better off making it talk ethernet so you can just
> plug in a hunk of cat5 and away you go. This USB nonsense is starting to
> get on my nerves. It seems like everything is migrating to it and it's
> almost more trouble than it's worth. But that's just me and my two
> copper pennies.
FWIW I have been told that inside the Directway box is an ethernet to USB
converter. I have no first hand knowledge of this but the information
came to me from someone who I trust.
Of course YMMV.
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