I had DirecWay and yes you are right about the latency and it is a major issue. For two reasons yes it cripples games but when you send requests they are also slow. The downloads are great if that is all your doing but in today's internet world you are sending quite a bit of data as well as downloading it. Beyond that The installation cost us $700.00 dollars about two years ago. Those may have come down a bit. Our next issue was a lockup issue. It would randomly just lockup and we would have to disconnect it from the usb port shut the server down and unplug the sat receiver. This happened about every 3 days. Again this was supposed to be fixed in a fimware upgrade. I never kept it long enough for that to happen. At any rate all in all it was better than dial up but it has it's drawbacks and depending on what YOU are expecting you may find it works for you.
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I had DirecWay and yes you are right about the latency and it is a major issue. For two reasons yes it cripples games but when you send requests they are also slow. The downloads are great if that is all your doing but in today's internet world you are sending quite a bit of data as well as downloading it. Beyond that The installation cost us $700.00 dollars about two years ago. Those may have come down a bit. Our next issue was a lockup issue. It would randomly just lockup and we would have to disconnect it from the usb port shut the server down and unplug the sat receiver. This happened about every 3 days. Again this was supposed to be fixed in a fimware upgrade. I never kept it long enough for that to happen. At any rate all in all it was better than dial up but it has it's drawbacks and depending on what YOU are expecting you may find it works for you.