It seems like a good idea but under the terms of service if you do a lot of
downloading and surpass some fairly low limits they start slowing the
connection down.. After a point, you can be at 56K speeds again... Casual
browsing, no problem. Serious downloads, can be a problem and may not be
worth the money.
Larry Botkin (ARS N9PC, ex WA9NKN, Licensed since 1964)
At 03:24 PM 8/15/03 -0700, N6KJ wrote:
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>Subject: Re: [RFI] BPL alternatives
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>The Direcway system has not been marketed very well and few know about it.
>Yes it would meet the needs of most web-surfers, but it does not
>have enough bandwidth to meet business/SOHO needs or the needs of people
>hoping to get things like video-on-demand. Anyone running a server or
>business or looking for video-on-demand needs more bandwidth.
>
>No doubt about it...BPL is very attractive to those that couldn't care less
>about who they "stomp" in order to get their bandwidth needs met.
>
>
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>On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:02:55 +0000, "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" wrote:
>
> >
> > I believe Hughes Direcway two-way satellite internet access is not much
> more
> > than a DSL connection now, around $60-70/month. see
> > http://www.direcway.com/
> >
> > I totally do not get why people in remote areas who want high speed
> internet
> > access do not use this service. My conclusion is that they don't know
> about
> > it because it doesn't seem like Hughes has done much to promote it.
> >
> > Rob Atkinson
> > K5UJ
> >
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