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I have used Directway's service before. A store i am working with on a project is useing it as their connection. It is a relitively fast connection, useing dslreports test i got 1045 kbps down but only 153k up, like I said not bad but got to love my old RR at 3Mbps down, 768 up. I have an ADSL connectino now at 256-128 but it is faster for surfing than the satalite due to HIGH latency times.....
the SAT is seding the info about 8 miles up and then back down just to get a packet to them and there is alot of packets makeing that trip to do one task online, and the bad thing is microwave singnals are much slower than electricity.
Don't get me wrong the SAT is great for file transfers but if you are just surfing a simple webpage dialup will be about the same speed, and forget gameing on SAT connections. and they are not good for running any kind of server service, one of my freinds keeps getting ports blocked, he was not even running a server just doing uploads to the company he works for, he said that they use a NAT service too......... I know the pc i have the SAT connecting to has some very odd software on it that has a proxy built into it that you have to configure everything to use......
thats just what i know about the Satillite connections thught you might find some of it usefull.....................
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