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"couple of dozen homes", mines a couple of homes :) On 7/24/06, Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dan, Double ouch. And is satellite still only one-way (download)? So, you're > still using a phone line anyway? You can get 2-way satellite and eliminate the phone line. But you have pretty high latency (which is bad for things like emulation sessions) and back when I used satellite due to no other choices, it didn't take much rain to knock out my signal. It was better than dial-up for sure, but was pretty lousy service for what it cost me. Perhaps things are better now. However, I can now get both cable and DSL, so I have both. I have a 6Mbps DSL connection with static IP, and a 7Mbps cable connection with dynamic IP. I have both for high availability and used to use a dual WAN router to share the load or auto-fallover. But I haven't found a dual WAN router I really like yet. So instead I'm running off just one WAN connection with the other as a hot spare. Then because one of my sons lives outside both the DSL and cable service areas (unless he pays thousands to have the cable strung....), I setup a wireless link between our places and let him use my other connection. I pay for two connections; two households get service; and I have a hot spare should my service go down. They aren't out a customer by me doing this -- he tried to get them to sell him service! We're only 1 1/3 miles apart, so would have been a piece of cake except for the foilage between us. So we had to go with 900MHz gear made for WISP usage to penetrate the trees, and I can only get him a 4Mbps download speed. But his dialup could only connect at 20-22kbps normally -- never anywhere close to 50k -- and ping times between us are about 11ms so needless to say it sure beats satellite service.... Doug -- This is the PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users (PcTech) mailing list To post a message email: PcTech@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/pctech or email: PcTech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/pctech.
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