[RTC List] Question about Wireless Availability

[Keri Raphael]

I agree with most of what Sean wrote.  I have satellite, although I don't find it slower than the dialup out here in the sticks.  It is definitely bothered by rainy weather.  Lori, down in So Humb, has the next generation Direcway/Hughes (DW7000?) and doesn't seem to have the rain problems I do and thinks it works fairly fast.  
The cost is high, for satellite, and it doesn't even include a dialup number.  I would recommend having a dialup backup.
Keri

"Sean Ennis, ScanDoc" <sean at scandoc.com> wrote: Some extra (perhaps extraneous information) re: 
Hughes/DirectWay/Earthlink satellite service:

1. Download sometimes slows down to less-than-dialup speed.  Upload 
speed is often slower than dialup.  Even when its working great, I 
don't think download ever gets above 784 kbps.
2. Affected by weather
3. Very difficult (if not impossible) to use a VPN connection to 
another computer/network due to high latency and conflicts with Hughes own VPN.
4. No local tech.  They come from Redding, I believe.
5. Support is real spotty.
6. Expensive to setup and per month.

If there were better alternative up Kneeland way, we'd sure like to 
know about it.

Sean Ennis


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