Direc Way decision.those that us it, help me here.

PBMAX · Mar 11, 2004

Thanks ljh2 that awsome.....!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll try to get buy there this weekend. I need to do some sys maintinaince any way for her....I try to automate as much as I can for....

Now if I can Get DirecTv to upgrade the DTV Tivo to turn on the USB ports for networking I'll be in tech heaven..... ( dropped a tech complaint to them today... Think I try to remeber fuss afton till they fix it). That or learn Lynix and hack the durn thing....but I hear it's a pain........

ljh2 · Mar 12, 2004

Hey, glad to help. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

PBMAX · Mar 15, 2004

WAHHHHH HOOOOOO!!! HIGH SPEED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now to fix my desk top /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif For now I'm using my laptop.... MY desk top is having problems with it nic but I have a nother around here some where..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif...
But once I get er up i'll do some tweaking and see what kind a performace I can really get.

THanks for alll the help ALLL....

PBMAX · Mar 15, 2004

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Just had to reseat the NIC. Now I have a Linksys switch beteween the modem and my network and will finish those this weekend....Man is it nice to click and open a page and not have to wait forever.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Now I can see if I can tweek it. I've read here and there of folks getting 800kbs+

Stopped while typing to hook the boss er-- i mean wife up on my laptop in the livin room....

Good start we'll keep playin and let ya know what we really think down th road but I'd say I'll not be going back to dail up...... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
I think we'd just do with out again.. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

bebster · Feb 5, 2005

I'm getting ready to finalize the installation of DirecWay. Comcast cable told me "it's not going to happen" because of the distance, so it's DirecWay for me now. The dish has been installed, but the electronics are just getting scheduled.

Any new developments recently? Or good or bad experiences to share on the installation and/or use? Thanks in advance for sharing.

PBMAX · Feb 6, 2005

We've been happy with it. I can't play on line games like Battle field 1942 because of the latency issue. But that does not effect the average stuff my wife and I do like surfing and send and receiving pictures and stuff. The average download speed is 300k. Upload speeds are limited but it's still much better than the phoneline ever was. I have linksys cable dsl, 4port and wirles, router that we use to run 2 pc's and soon my pocket pc.

riptides · Feb 7, 2005

What about your TV?

Did you do the DirecTV and DirecWAY?
On one dish?
Or two?

-Mike Z.

SevenCorners · Feb 7, 2005

This might be a little off topic but we just recently got the option for IP over the power lines. Our local Coop is the first in the nation to begin service.Our neighbors got it and are pleased so far. I have cable with a 3mbps that costs $50 per month the Power company is charging $19 per month for 6ookbps not too shabby. The reason I mention it is that very shortly we should all have the option of buying internet and phone from several sources ie power company cable, phone, sat....
IP over the power lines is a really neat idea that should allow almost everyone to have high speed connections.

riptides · Feb 7, 2005

Ahh, yes on the powerline broadband.

BUT

Is this a pilot program? I have heard of numerous issues regarding legaleeze syurrounding this new oppertunity.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

PBMAX · Feb 7, 2005

riptides, I chose to keep them seperate. It was a good $200+ to buy the extra equipment to put both on the same Dway dish. Also as mentioned by another I was hoping to give up the dway in few years. For some other form of wired DSL. The local phone co tells me 1.5 to 3yrs as of last March. That roughly translates to about 5 yrs from then.... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Also I heard rumors of several power co's in the south offering the Power-line ? DSL some time soon. I know they have been testing it in Oklahoma and I then Virginia for a few yrs now. If Alabama power offers I'm there. I pay $65 a month buy the time they hit me with taxes and fees... and that with out a static IP and no Twitch Gaming.... Either case I chose keep it 2 dish's, mostly so I could easly keep my digatal TV connection and drop the Dway...