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[Mrwurm]

My Direcway two-way satellite internet connection is up and running. It is smok'n fast compared to dial-up. I also have my home network configured to share the connection. My wife is upstairs surfing the net and I just got done downloading a 50 MB file. It took 5 1/2 minutes.

Network cards, cables, hub..............$100
Satellite hardware and installation....$580
DirecWay service..............$59 per month

 

[MikePA]

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Is that $59/month an introductory offer or a permanent price?

 

[Mrwurm]

That's the regular price ($59). You can pay $99 down and $99 per month for one year if you don't want to shell out the $580 for the equipment and installation all at once. Then it reverts to $59 per month. A bit pricey, but the only game in town.

 

[Golfgar4]

Jerry,

What's that other dish farther down the house, the old system?

And how come your new dish isn't blue?? /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif

 

[Alan L.]

I can't find that last thread where I posted this question, but does the data and TV signal come down inside on separate coaxes, or will one cable share satellite TV, antenna, and data all on one cable?

 

[Mrwurm]

Alan, there is two coax cables. One for download, one for upload. You can receive Direct-Tv with this dish also, but I din't know if it would use it's own cable.

 

[Mrwurm]

Garry, the other dish is my recently installed DishNetwork dish. I got that before I decided to go with DirecWay internet. I could have gotten Direct-Tv with the DirecWay, but it costs $$$. So, I have two dishes.

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[DavidInNH]

DirecTV is a completly different signal, on a different satellite. There is supposed to be a kit that allows you to mount an LNB for DirecTV on the DirecWay dish. My installer told me that it didn't really work because the two satellites were too close together and you couldn't make the angles work. Then, after a couple of hours of not being able to get a signal, DirecWay had him use a different satellite. I asked him if this one was far enough from the DirecTV dish to make the angles work. He said, yeah, probably. I haven't gotten around to following up on this yet. I would be interested in hearing if anybody else has got DirecTV and DirecWay on the same dish.

-david

 

[Mrwurm]

I've been doing some speed tests at www.toast.net over the last two days and I found out the following:

The speed averages about the same as a cable modem with it running up to four times faster than a cable modem at times. It also runs as slow as 70 k at times.

My home network consists of two computers. Both computers share the connection, but the computer that runs the Direcway software gets the high speed. The computer that is picking up the connection off the network runs no faster than a dial-up (56K). Thats ok, as long as I have access. I just use the faster system when I download big files.

 

[Mrwurm]

UPDATE

I found out that Internet Explorer and Netscape both need to be configured on the 'client' computer that picks up the connection off the network (LAN). I had to type in a static IP address and a port number. Both computers now surf at high speed /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif