fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | WOW!
If I were out of distance of DSL (I am) and Cable (Cablevision), I would get a Dial-Up account or two. That much $$ for that performance? Forget it... |
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getoffmylawn
@bek.com
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antdude 
| Whatever happened to that "shotgun" modem pairing technology? |
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caribconsult
Premium
join:2003-03-19
Mayaguez, PR
 ·HughesNet Satellit..
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·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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FCISLER: have you checked to see if you are within sprint's wireless broadband range? Go to »www.sprint.com and use mapping service to see if you are 'in the orange.' Be sure to select the DATA services tab, not cell phone. I'll bet you are in range; most of Long Island is, especially a major area like Riverhead.
Check the Sprint Mobile Broadband forum here at BBR, and the Millenicom forum as well for reader reviews.
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Franklin CDU/Assent MBR WBB combo, service through Millenicom, 3 XPPro stations, Mozilla everywhere. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to fcisler
For that price, I'd purchase a wireless (GSM EDGE/3G or CDMA 1x /EVDO in the boonies) datacard and have better performance.
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diskobunny
@comcast.net
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and you get suckered into their 2 year contract. The customer support can't speak clear enough English to even understand that a period is the end of a thought. Their contract states if they make changes you have the right to cancel service. This sentence is followed by, subject to early termination fees, you can cancel your contract anytime. They made changes to my account and are not honoring that they made changes and have nullified the contract. I will have to take them to court to have them honor what is clearly stated in their own contract. It's clear English not legalese, they made a change to my account. And the only way they state that I can get out of my contract is to pay them $1200.00. Bologna. Hughesnet is schiesty, unhelpful, and it is true the connection speeds suck. Don't bother, it's not worth it.
Hughesnet subscriber.
PS Subscribing to Hughesnet is like signing your soul over to the devil. IMHO |
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Subaru
1-3-2-4
Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT
clubs:  | reply to getoffmylawn
said by getoffmylawn :
Whatever happened to that "shotgun" modem pairing technology?
seems like it never took off |
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Camelot One
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Sarasota, FL
clubs:
| It requires the same chips on both the dial in and host side, as well as the software backend. ISP's just never saw a need to invest in it, with broadband working it's way into the picture.
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fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
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Oh I get cablevision....30/5 "said speed", I don't need it....
But at $80 a month for satellite.....it's ridiculous. I would go for sprint's service if I really needed a last resort....a guy at work has it, and it works pretty much everywhere...decent enough to watch a good quality slingbox stream. |
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antdude
A Ninja Ant
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
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said by fcisler :If I were out of distance of DSL (I am) and Cable (Cablevision), I would get a Dial-Up account or two. That much $$ for that performance? Forget it... Or move if possible. 
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caribconsult
Premium
join:2003-03-19
Mayaguez, PR
·HughesNet Satellit..
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What you're referring to is called 'channel bonding' and it was a technology that gave you almost ISDN speeds (128Kbps up) with a pair of modems, assuming you had 2 clean phone lines to get two good connections.
Most ISP's backed away from supporting this as DSL and cable superseded ISDN and dialup. I checked with my dialup provider awhile ago and they abandoned channel bonding in favor of faster cable service. If your ISP doesn't support channel bonding you won't be able to use it no matter how many modems you use.
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Franklin CDU/Assent MBR WBB combo, service through Millenicom, 3 XPPro stations, Mozilla everywhere. |
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caribconsult
Premium
join:2003-03-19
Mayaguez, PR
·HughesNet Satellit..
·Millenicom
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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Check out Sprint or Millenicom Mobile Broadband. I have it, I had Hughes, and the difference is night and day. I would imagine you have good cell coverage in Riverhead (I used to live in Rockville Centre).
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Franklin CDU680/Assent MBR400 combo, CAY1912 panel antenna, Millenicom, 4 XPPro stations, Mozilla everywhere. |
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