Re: Firefox Tool Bar gone...

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

"couple of dozen homes", mines a couple of homes :)

On 7/24/06, Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Double ouch.  And is satellite still only one-way  (download)?  So, you're
> > still using a phone line anyway?
>
>
> You can get 2-way satellite and eliminate the phone line.  But you have
> pretty high latency (which is bad for things like emulation sessions) and
> back when I used satellite due to no other choices, it didn't take much
> rain
> to knock out my signal.  It was better than dial-up for sure, but was
> pretty
> lousy service for what it cost me.  Perhaps things are better now.
>
> However, I can now get both cable and DSL, so I have both.  I have a 6Mbps
> DSL connection with static IP, and a 7Mbps cable connection with dynamic
> IP.  I have both for high availability and used to use a dual WAN router
> to
> share the load or auto-fallover.  But I haven't found a dual WAN router I
> really like yet.
>
> So instead I'm running off just one WAN connection with the other as a hot
> spare.  Then because one of my sons lives outside both the DSL and cable
> service areas (unless he pays thousands to have the cable strung....), I
> setup a wireless link between our places and let him use my other
> connection.
>
> I pay for two connections; two households get service; and I have a hot
> spare should my service go down.  They aren't out a customer by me doing
> this -- he tried to get them to sell him service!  We're only 1 1/3 miles
> apart, so would have been a piece of cake except for the foilage between
> us.  So we had to go with 900MHz gear made for WISP usage to penetrate the
> trees, and I can only get him a 4Mbps download speed.  But his dialup
> could
> only connect at 20-22kbps normally -- never anywhere close to 50k -- and
> ping times between us are about 11ms so needless to say it sure beats
> satellite service....
>
> Doug
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