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Re: [Killietalk] New topic- Directway Cost/Restrictions was Bounce

The bigest problem is snow accumulating on the dish in the winter. Other than that the signal may degrade some during very heavy storms, but not total signal loss like the tv signal. The snow issue seems to be that the satellite they use for internet is in a different orbit, not as far south as the tv satellite. You should be able to put a heating cable on it to get rid od the snow. Just plug it in when the snow kills the signal.

I still would only recomend satellite interenet for people who don't have access to cable or DSL. I use satellite for TV and DSC for internet. I have cable available, but I have some issues with local cable company so I don't do business with them..... Besides for me satellite tv and DSL internet is cheaper than cable tv and internet.



Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland





From: "william ruyle" <wruyle at hotmail_com>
Reply-To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] New topic- Directway Cost/Restrictions was Bounce
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 02:39:30 +0000


Drummond Howard wrote:

I do know soeone with Direcway and spent many hours working on it. It requires a seperate dish and receiver. The receivers for tv do not change. It is expensive, and prior to the most recent software upgrade it was very slow for normal surfing. Dial-up was faster. The new software(which is XP compatible) uses proxy and is a lot faster. They also have a new modem coming out that uses a network connection rather than the USB on the old modem. I haven't seen any download restrictions, but they aren't running Kazaa and downloading movies 24/7 either. It is an option if DSL or Cable are not, buit it is an expensive option. DSL costs me $30 a month and I can't complain about the speed or quality.

After the trouble I had with DirecTV in Maine when we had storms that would
knock the signal out for up to 12 hours at a stretch, I went with cable down
here in Alabama. Wouldn't atmospheric conditions wreak the same havoc with
Direcway? Now that I've had my cable modem replaced (power cord kept shorting
out and knocking me off the net) I can heartily recommend it. It is a little pricey
(49.95 per month, ComCast) compared to dialup, but that's the price I pay for
my wife to watch ThaiTV on the computer.

Bill

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