Heavy snow and ice DO bother the DirecWay system. This is because water absorbes microwaves (this is how a microwave oven works), so the precipitation does effect it. I have not had much problem with rain, except in *real heavy* rain.
Did I mention I will never purchase a DirecWay system again?
I will never puchase a DirecWay system again. First of all, they cap your downloads to 100MB/hour (I think), and then start to ratchet your bandwidth by half until you are down to a crawl. So don't expect to download any.iso files. Also, ping times are around 3 seconds. SSH connections are *possible*, but they really suck. Direcway will give you a utility to setup MS Windows machines to work w/ direcway. To get linux boxes to work, you need to set the direcway box as a proxy, as well as change the window size to 50000 -- I forget the route command, but I can email anybody who is interested (My linux box is at home, and I am at work.) I hope this helps, STAY AWAY!!! mmb@marlboro.edu
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You can use the run as.. feature in XP to run as the administrator
Actually, you can run-as in win2k as well. But again (preaching to the choire) who actually does this? I run winXP at work, and I havn't . . . yet.
Heavy snow and ice DO bother the DirecWay system. This is because water absorbes microwaves (this is how a microwave oven works), so the precipitation does effect it. I have not had much problem with rain, except in *real heavy* rain.
Did I mention I will never purchase a DirecWay system again?
just my 2 cents.
I will never puchase a DirecWay system again. First of all, they cap your downloads to 100MB/hour (I think), and then start to ratchet your bandwidth by half until you are down to a crawl. So don't expect to download any .iso files. Also, ping times are around 3 seconds. SSH connections are *possible*, but they really suck. Direcway will give you a utility to setup MS Windows machines to work w/ direcway. To get linux boxes to work, you need to set the direcway box as a proxy, as well as change the window size to 50000 -- I forget the route command, but I can email anybody who is interested (My linux box is at home, and I am at work.) I hope this helps, STAY AWAY!!! mmb@marlboro.edu
The link to the advisory on www.netsec.net is here, has more technical info than the cnn article.