RE: Rural Outsourcing

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should use whatever makes you happiest.  I'm not getting a commission
from Direcway. I just answered the question posed to me. 

I use satellite because my alternative is dial up. I live so far off the
beaten path  out here that we're still waiting to find out who won the
election, Bush or Gore. 

However, direcway does a very nice job for me and from what I can tell,
latency is not nearly as bad as it used to be.  I doubt you could use VOIP
on it, but you could definitely play online games now whereas with the older
modems that was not possible.



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:39 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Rural Outsourcing

>
> 22 miles? Geosynchronous satellites orbit at 22,500 miles, IIRC. 22 miles
> =
> 116,160 feet.


Sorry, I meant 22k miles.  Fat fingers...

But my point was that last I knew you'd have an inherent 500ms or more for
the trip, and no amount of modem upgrades seem likely to reduce that.  When
I used the service, my average time was more like 700ms, IIRC.

Doug