[TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet

[Larry WA9VRH]

Hi Dan and Bill,

I have WildBlue and love it. I was able to deal with VPN when I was working 
for Oce and needed it
to access our network. Never worried about the speed as it was light years 
ahead of Verizon dial up
which on a good day was 24.6!

I have used it with Echolink and it works fine. Very few outtages in 5 plus 
years....  Hope it doesn't go South now!

73 Larry WA9VRH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gillenwater" <gillie at pa.net>
To: "Dan Bookwalter" <N8DCJ at YAHOO.COM>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet


>I used a DirecTV/DirecWAY internet satellite for several years. It works
> fine. It was almost DSL speed but not cable modem speed. This was 4 years
> ago, so higher speeds may be available. Beats the heck out of the old
> telephone modem hookup. I have even seen some motor homes with the 
> DirectTV
> satellite service and they are very happy with it.  As long as you don't
> have to go through any VPN type networks (some business networks have
> multiple firewall gadgets) it will work fine. I was happy. Lived in the
> woods and on top of a mountain with not hope of cable or DSL.
> 73 Bill K3SV
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Bookwalter" <n8dcj at yahoo.com>
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:08 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] OT: Satellite Internet
>
>
>> please send any responses to my personal email , n8dcj at yahoo.com
>>
>> I have moved to a place with no land based broadband internet 
>> availability
>> (no
>> DSL or RoadRunner). Does anyone have any experience with satellite ? I am
>> concerned about the latencies , the sales guy at WildBlue claims 250-500
>> millisecond which i can live with , but , everywhere on the internet i 
>> see
>> it is
>> more like 2000 milliseconds. I do not think i can get any wireless stuff
>> either
>> as i am surrounded by tree's.
>>
>> Dan N8DCJ
>>
>>
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