On Thu, 23 May 2002, Eric Murray wrote:
> Have any of you other boonie-dwellers tried one of
> the satelite-based services?
that was my high on my list until I discovered two things:
1) regular dial-up uploads, i.e., you have to maintain a dial-up i.s.p.
and you get to keep the dial-up upload speed. (but, then, the same guy
that told me that told me the cable/dsl thing, so maybe this is crap too).
2) I got dish network satellite t.v. heavy cloud cover and thunderstorms
will cause the satellite to lose the signal and spend three to five
minutes trying to re-acquire a signal. this would be maddening while
surfing I bet. but, we live in the middle of what amounts to a national
forest with plenty o' trees and the installer for the dish spent about a
half hour finding a good place to locate the dish to get a signal. I
dunno if that has an effect--maybe the trees sway in the wind, maybe the
signal is marginal to begin with and the clouds exacerbate the problem).
when you added that to the cost (almost twice what d.s.l. was asking) I
nixed it.
all in all, I'm temped to ask what laying a t1 would cost. the town is so
small that I can't be too far away from whatever the t1 would have to meet
on the other end.
scott
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