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Miscellaneous => The Water Cooler -- General Discussions => Topic started by: Brenden on January 03, 2005, 09:07:27 PM
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Wow I want to have the FAST connect.. 8)
Borrowing a friends laptop as I am away from my home puter for a couple and what a difference this makes..
I do not want to go back to my dial-up.. :'(
I am in the "semi"sticks and no cable,or dsl available as yet..Sorry-won't flip for DSS connect..
For all you all that live "fast",I have the envy.. ;)
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Brenden ... despite being semi rural where I live, I am also in theory well supplied with phone lines etc. But a research inquiry revealed - no DSL or cable service available .. yet. Oh this hi-tech world ... but just not here!!
''Could be 3 months or 6 months'' they said ... well, after years of dial-up and the fact that I am at the machine so much ... I weakened and got hooked up on the Direcway satellite deal.
It is wicked expensive ... and upload still none too rapid but - I have to say, biting the bullet at near $70/mth ... it has to be worth it - for me.
Interesting .... three weeks ago I downloaded a huge file - it contained a monster collection of XP patches and tools .. most of which I don't need but - thought it could be useful. 277Mb !!!!!! .... came down thru a download manager (from two servers at same time) in under 40 minutes!!! Incredible.
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R9SCarry,
What is your connect speed avg. with the Direcway and how has the service been?
Reason asked is that I have been less than satisfied as of late with my service with Direct TV..
Thanks,
Brenden
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Hi Brenden,
Well it ain't perfect (what is?!). Week or so ago during some very severe conditions down in MD, where I was told there is a ground station .... I lost all use for a coupla hours ... but OK after that. One of those things I guess... Mother Nature!!
Otherwise, now into second month - really very good. Now and again I lose the ''system'' light on the modem (means TCP acceleration gone down) but that is usually dealt with by a simple power cycle so no biggie.
Quoted speeds are IIRC ... 500 kb/sec down and 50kb/sec up. In practical terms this Ok, tho the up is a tad slow compared with what I'd like. Converting those speeds .. we can say that as an example, FTP uploads can clock 20kB/sec or more (over 150 kb) ... and down can whizz up to over 100kB/sec (800kb) ... that is useful. Note the difference ... upper case ''B'' bytes ... lower case ''b'' is bits.
Verdict - expensive for sure but - my only choice and overall, pretty pleased.