At long last WildBlue is out yonder - Satellite Internet service for rural U.S. has first subscriber

Rocky Mountain News ^ | May 20, 2005 | John Accola

[farmfriend]

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[Paleo Conservative]

Would I rather have DSL? Maybe. Better than dialup? No question.

DSL won't work at distances greater than 18,000 feet from the switching office. That's 18,000 of wire length not as the crow flies. It's not an option for rural areas.

[who knows what evil?]

Wake me up when these high-speed "services" get down to $15 per month. Otherwise, I'll stick with dial-up.

[sharktrager]

Have you checked to see if any of the microwave based systems are available?

[Paleo Conservative]

Wake me up when these high-speed "services" get down to $15 per month. Otherwise, I'll stick with dial-up.

Cable and DSL are already cheaper than adding an additional phone line + dial up internet service, and they are much faster. They can easily be added to a LAN so that multiple users at a home or business can access the internet simultaneouly.

[Melas]

It wouldn't be a maybe if you had it. I just checked my download speed by downloading a 4mb spyware checker from download.com. 476kbs was my download speed. That and I typically have sub 50ms pings for the online games I play.

[amigatec]

Cable and DSL are already cheaper than adding an additional phone line + dial up internet service, and they are much faster. They can easily be added to a LAN so that multiple users at a home or business can access the internet simultaneouly.

Yep that is right.
Second phone line was $35 a month plus all the taxes added to it (really adds up to about $45 a month). 2 56k dial-up accounts @ $15 a piece = $75 a month.

1 DSL account 1.5/384 @ $60 a month. Plus I run 4 PC's though it.

[amigatec]

The problem I see with DirectPC, is it has to have a phone line.

A guy I work with lives so far out in the sticks he doesn't have a phone line, more than a 1/4 mile from the closest connections.
It was going to cost $2500 to install the line so he uses a cellphone to make calls, and even that has a hard time getting out.

He has DirectPC, but when it loses the signal he has to load the PC, and the Sat modem up and go to town to reinstall the keys. Major pain in the butt!!!


He may be interested in this.

[angkor]

*pissed* *off* at the reporting of the L/MSM.

Yes, that would be correct.

I was in another country some years ago and had a number of journo friends. Their reporting was politically slanted but I let it slide, until we had a series of confrontational events which gained global attention.

Suddenly the stories went from merely slanted to outright exaggeration, deliberate misreporting, and ... yes ... outright lying.

I pretty much stopped hanging out with them after that.

[FreedomPoster]

BTW, God bless, and stay low/safe over there. There are a *lot* of us who support what you're doing, even though you're not hearing it from the media. You already knew that, since you're here at FR, but it doesn't hurt for one more of us to say it.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Direcway has been around for years

DirecPC has been around for about 10 years. I did my first install in the spring of 1995. DirecPC required you to connect via land line. All your uploads went via modem, while the downloads were routed back over satellite

DirecWay has only been with us for a few years. It's the consumer version of the VSAT service and offers satellite uploads as well as downloads.

I worked for an electronics company when DirecPC was first launched and we distributed DirecPC. I spent a lot of time on the bleeding edge of this launch and at one point used to get customer support calls sent to me when the DirecPC support folks didn't know the answer.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

The problem I see with DirectPC, is it has to have a phone line.

Things have changed. See post 53. No need for a land line anymore.