I had direcway when I lived out in the sticks (up till about 2 months ago), and I can tell you from firsthand experience that it is miserable. The throughput is great, but the latency makes browsing (especially anything ssl) painful. If you are doing large file transfers, it really does go pretty fast, sometimes faster than my current cable modem. But for ordinary web browsing, it is really the pits. Also if you are uploading anything to a site, it is extra painful, because their upload speed is pretty slow and you have the latency too. A double whammy. If there is any possibility of getting anything else (ISDN, etc), I would certainly go that route first. If your only choices are DW or dialup, I guess I would pick Direcway.
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I had direcway when I lived out in the sticks (up till about 2 months ago), and I can tell you from firsthand experience that it is miserable. The throughput is great, but the latency makes browsing (especially anything ssl) painful. If you are doing large file transfers, it really does go pretty fast, sometimes faster than my current cable modem. But for ordinary web browsing, it is really the pits. Also if you are uploading anything to a site, it is extra painful, because their upload speed is pretty slow and you have the latency too. A double whammy. If there is any possibility of getting anything else (ISDN, etc), I would certainly go that route first. If your only choices are DW or dialup, I guess I would pick Direcway.