its better than dial-up, but it has some rather crippling restrictions. Its fast for dloading, but you have about a 100 mb limit every hour or so (the so-called "Fair Use" policy) and then they cut you off. Also the thing you mentioned about lag:( Another thing, with snow like we have here in VA (read: not very much; usually about 2-5 in), there's about a 10% chance that the net stops working after a fresh snowfall (usually for anywhere from 5 hrs-2 days; you have backup dialup provided).
Something that happened last year: We had snow. It started to melt. Big chunks slid off the metal roof. They took the coaxial cable with it. The upside was that the repairman was included free in the deal.
File sharing especially invokes the "Fair Use" policy, you must either set low bandwith limits or just have it on for an hour at a time. The prob with that method is losing your place in someone's queue:(
Web surfing is about the same speed as dial-up because of the lag time.
Where sat. really shines is dloading; it's too bad that it has the restriction... Earthlink is my ISP; they of course use DIRECWAY. At the time Earthlink offered the exact same package as DIRECWAY for about $10 less a month.
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its better than dial-up, but it has some rather crippling restrictions. Its fast for dloading, but you have about a 100 mb limit every hour or so (the so-called "Fair Use" policy) and then they cut you off. Also the thing you mentioned about lag :( Another thing, with snow like we have here in VA (read: not very much; usually about 2-5 in), there's about a 10% chance that the net stops working after a fresh snowfall (usually for anywhere from 5 hrs-2 days; you have backup dialup provided).
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Something that happened last year: We had snow. It started to melt. Big chunks slid off the metal roof. They took the coaxial cable with it. The upside was that the repairman was included free in the deal.
File sharing especially invokes the "Fair Use" policy, you must either set low bandwith limits or just have it on for an hour at a time. The prob with that method is losing your place in someone's queue
Web surfing is about the same speed as dial-up because of the lag time.
Where sat. really shines is dloading; it's too bad that it has the restriction... Earthlink is my ISP; they of course use DIRECWAY. At the time Earthlink offered the exact same package as DIRECWAY for about $10 less a month.
It's kinda amusing EARTHlink offering sat. net...