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T1 jockey
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I too am way out in the boonies and do everything through a data connection. I was one of the original direcpc/hughes clients, I guess a beta since they didn't bill me the first 6-8 months. Back then download was satelite and upload was through a modem. It was only fit for downloading data, I had two ISDN circuits for real work, 128k each, it worked, they were about $110 each per month. Dialup averaging 16k was out of the question. I eventually replaced the two ISDN circuits and satellite, and phone service with a single T1 and voip from packet8 (T1 NOT from packet8).
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birdonawire
join:2002-02-16
Polk, OH
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| Yeah, I remember that kind of system! Years back, we had the grey-dish phone-line-return system that uploaded via a dial-up modem connected to your ISP, and downloaded data over the dish. The satellite modem had a bad habit of overheating (that sucker really got hot), and when they came out with the new 2-way service the indoor equipment was pretty much two of the old-style modems, one stacked on top of the other, and since they were the same kind of modem that was long known to overheat, you'd now have two modems overheating unless you set a fan on top of the modem cases themselves to draw off some of the heat. Amazing how far things have come since then!
How is your T1 configured? Is it a PRI or a bundled T1 with an Internet port? I've priced them off-and-on through the years but always nearly fell over at the price (which was close to 3 times what you are paying for yours).  | |
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