Re: 3R Home and Barn Project If you can get a wisp, absolutely go for it. I have hughesnet (which was direcpc/direcway) and it has it's good points and it's bad points. On the good side, it's not dialup. That about covers it. On the bad side is terrible latency, near unusability with anything encrypted (take that to mean that a VPN is iffy at best), near unusability with anything involving remote desktops, and on top of that hughesnet has instituted what they call a 'fair access policy'. Basically I have a 500mb bucket of internet per day, that I can empty at up to 1mbps. Once it's empty, it refills at ~28k. If you hit the fap limit, you pretty much turn the modem off for a day and hope. That wouldn't be so bad, but you get no monitoring tools and no warning. FWIW, with three computers in my house, I can get fapped just by letting them run their automatic windows updates, plus a bit of regular browsing. Upload speeds are also not anything to get excited about.
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