Re: Re: HIGH SPEED!

From: Aaron Wyse (awyse@sw.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2005 - 23:18:26 EST


I'll be sure to relay that info to a friend that's been considering getting
one. If he moved closer to town he'd try to be rural..
Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: HIGH SPEED!

>
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:32:34 -0600, Aaron Wyse <awyse@sw.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Another rural alternative is satellite.. They now have them for 2 way
high
> > speed.. It used to be only on the DL side, but now you can do high speed
for
> > UL as well. It's not very economical yet, but still an alternative.
> > Aaron
>
> unfortunately latency is as bad or worse than dailup with a satalite, so
for general browsing it's not appreciably faster than 56k dailup. Larger
file downloads are of course faster, but a terminal session is nigh
impossible...
> --
> Mike Maskalans <http://mike.tepidcola.com/dodge/>
> '98 Dakota SLT CC, 318/46RE/231, D44/Sterling 10.25, 4.10s, 35s on Humvee
rims
> '84 RamCharger Royale SE, 360/727/208, stock, 3.21s



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