On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:22, Charles A. Crayne wrote: > I am currently looking at satellite alternatives. Would you mind letting me > know what you chose, and what your experiences were? > I used DirecWay until we finally got a local wireless provider. I had the 2Way (always on) service. Weather can affect it, but the only time I had a problem was during heavy storms with very thick cloud cover. Since I kept a dialup account, I just switched to dialup at those times. Whether or not it's worth it depends on how you use the internet. If you mostly just surf around and do moderate email, dialup is almost as good. The latency involved in sending a signal that far then getting a signal back can slow you down enough to offset what speed you gain on the download side. If I was going to do a lot of surfing or spend a lot of time on a secure site (where the client and server 'talk' back and forth a lot) I would often use dialup for the upload side and satellite for the download side. I do a lot of downloading. That is where the satellite paid off for me. I averaged around 600k on the downloads (slow times were 200 to 300k and great times were near a meg). Good luck! Doug -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
