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Posted: 11/2/2001 3:41:59 PM EDT
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satellite service is available bi-directional now. problem solved.
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Posted: 11/2/2001 3:45:11 PM EDT
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My father-in-law lives in central Kentucky in the hills on about 90 acres. He has to buy water and have it trucked in to his cistern. They have line of sight wireless broadband for about the same price that I pay for business class roadrunner at home.
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Posted: 11/2/2001 4:03:52 PM EDT
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There are big hunks of land in Yavapai County, Arizona ( Prescott, Prescott Valley, Cottonwod, Chino Valley, etc.) that have line of site to wireless internet.
386K downloads cost 40 bucks a month. Jay Arizona |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 4:09:54 PM EDT
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You're SOL. Sure there's bandwidth but I know you're a videogame addict. The latency would kill you. Plus, you'll need to spend all your time tending to the horses. Say hello to AOL! Hahaha.
[;D] [:P] [whacko] |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 4:20:51 PM EDT
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Say hello to AOL! Hahaha. The Land Of Limitless Disconnects[IMG]http://www.freakygamers.com/smilies/s/contrib/aahmed/biggrin.gif[/IMG] I was SO happy to leave them FAR behind. Just wish they would quit calling. "I have broadband now! Go away!" at least once a month. |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 4:36:14 PM EDT
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Tip: Get enough land so that it doesn't matter what the neighbors do with theirs. Think you'll be shooting hipower on 10 acres when all the land around you is condos & strip malls? I know.. you gotta start somewhere.
Forget the highspeed for now. Tough it out. |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 7:46:02 PM EDT
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SomeGuy: I've heard about satellite, but I've never actually heard from someone who uses it. Do you?
-kill-9 |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 7:50:37 PM EDT
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Yeah you can get a sattelite and from what I understand it can have a DSL like speed or faster. But you are ****ed if there is a big **** storm.
[ Edited By GOATBOY on 11/02/2001 10:45:37 PM ] |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 7:59:12 PM EDT
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While satellite can deliver NEAR DSL download speed, the latency (as Shaginator pointed out) is AWFUL. Horrible for online games and not so great at surfing. Mostly just good at pure data transfers (ftp, download porn, etc.). [;)]
It's alright, but having used both DSL is FAR superior. My parent's farm house happens to be a few hundred yards from a highway, underwhich (beside) supposedly runs fiber. However my dad hasn't done any significant studying on how much it would cost us to run cable out to the fiber, and how much the conn. would cost. Likely an arm and a leg. Viper Out |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 8:00:50 PM EDT
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Shag,
> You're SOL. Sure there's bandwidth but I know you're a videogame addict. You are *not* a nice person. LOL [;)] - CD |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 8:03:02 PM EDT
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I am looking at 15 acres right now, cable modem is available.
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Posted: 11/2/2001 8:09:46 PM EDT
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My parents have 6 acres in a rural subdivision where everybody has at least 3 acres. They have Roadrunner that's fast as hell.
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Posted: 11/2/2001 8:41:08 PM EDT
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Where at, brouhaha?
-kill-9 |
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Posted: 11/2/2001 10:10:57 PM EDT
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I have starband satellite access. Let me say this.
Friends don't let friends buy starband! Tech support is horrible. They couldn't get it working on my win 98 machine, so I had to get a new win2k machine. Goes down at least once every other day. No good for games No good for running servers No good for SSH A sometimes own, sometimes high speed connection. |
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Posted: 11/3/2001 3:50:50 AM EDT
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I work for Verizon as a central office technician so as far as land lines go.. this is the skinny. Currently, DSL can be run to homes less than two miles from a central office (not a remote, the host CO) and straight copper must be available. Most companies are going to pair gain systems because copper is rather expensive... from what I understand, they are working on a multiplexer that would be compatible with pair gain (making DSL more widely available) but it is not available yet.
What this translates to for you is that your options for broadband would be ISDN (costly and possibly not available) or wireless/satelite technology, which has already been discussed here. As for me? I'm glad when I can even connect to the internet with my paper cups tied together with string... [:D] |
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Posted: 11/3/2001 7:35:44 AM EDT
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As wireless connections begin to gain in popularity, it will get much, much better.
Just my .02 [:)] Tyler |
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Posted: 11/3/2001 7:57:52 AM EDT
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Colleague at work has sprint microwave broadband. He says it works really well, as fast as cable. I'm not sure if it is bi-directional or not, but it is terrestrialy based.
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Posted: 11/3/2001 8:19:36 AM EDT
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TylerD.. nice looking pup ya got there..that an ABD?...where from?
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