Posted: Aug 28, 2011 2:52 pm
Galactor wrote:How do you connect to the interrynets by the way?
Oh you would have to bring up that sore spot!
We use Wildblue satellite as our net connection. It's slow and drops out when there is serious rain either on my end or at the downlink hub. The distance up to a geosynchronous satellite and back down to the hub, then the hub collecting the data, then back up and back down to me is a limiting factor that cannot be avoided. We don't get very good cell service so using that is out. There are no wireless ISP's anywhere on a line of sight with us either, so we're sortta stuck. We didn't have a net connection for the first 5 years we lived here and I was a net user way back in the early days of 9,600 baud modems, and before that with local area nets using the phone cradle 300 baud modems. Yes I'm an old fart!
The FCC promised that when the TV signals were converted to digital a nationwide wireless system would replace the analog bandwidth of the old TV system. I haven't seen or heard a word about that since.
RS