wilbilt
Pronto Resurrected
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join:2004-01-11
Oroville, CA
| said by Kenstar15  :if you believe satellite internet is an acceptable alternative you should be kick(ed) in the damn head. Absolutely. I installed Starband systems when they first ramped up 7-8 years ago. What a clusterf**k that was.
I tried it, but the latency made VPN/RDC pretty much unusable. The delays in remote response were actually worse than on a 24k dialup connection. Satellite is vulnerable to weather and technical outages, has high latency and is generally unreliable.
My choice, living out here in the middle of nowhere, was ISDN. The cost was high ($130/mo for 128k up/down), but the advantages over satellite were numerous.
Luckily for me, an act of God goosed ATT into upgrading the local RT and I now have 6Mb DSL for $35/mo. Sorry to hear about those still unable to get a cost-effective broadband connection.
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