Hi Kris,
> I do with that I could afford the hardware required to
> directly mount the dish on my RV (about $6K now), and not
> have to rely on the dish in the ground, but that is now my
> only complaint about my Starband connection. Even my IP phone
> works off it now. Its pretty cool, and is definitely worth
> the extra cost ($140/mo) to me.
Yeah, that does sound good. Right now, I'm paying $140/mo for national cell
phone service (mine + my son's phone with 3500 daytime minutes), and a
separate $30/mo for a cable (special price for 1st 6 months, then goes to
$54) Internet connection into my father's house (which feeds the LAN, so
everyone has a connection).
What I'd like to see is the cellular phone system providing high-speed
Internet connections, and avoid the need for the dish altogether. I did try
one of the early Version offers (cell phone adapter that fed a com port),
but found the speed unacceptably slow and priced by the minute.
I almost mounted a dish a while back on my RV, but got cold feet with the
cost, some uncertainties, and a demo from another river of a much cheaper
way to mount a dish on a tripod outside the RV that does the job for much
less money. But what he made look easy (the pointing part), might not be so
for someone else. Another concern I've had is that Hughes seems to be the
only satellite provider, and I've read where Hughes wants to get out of that
business. I take it that since you're still on the satellite connection,
they're still providing it.
> At this point, I probably don't need to worry about
> Lunarpages losing my web pages or my settings again because I
> can restore them more easily. If I had been required to re-do
> the site two months ago, the connection would have timed out
> over and over again uploading the larger files and it would
> have probably taken me 8 hours to do the upload. As it is now
> with the 256K upload speed, it went a lot better.
Gotcha.
Bill
> Best regards,
>
> - Kris
>
> www.shamrocktrails.com
>
>
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