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To: Brian Moore who wrote (11)	8/25/1998 9:45:00 AM
From: AJ Berger	Read Replies (1) of 36

Beware of that $30 for 400kb/sec offer for v.2 hardware/software DirecPC solution. the fact of the matter is you are constantly SHARING satellite bandwidth with other people and often your performance can slow to a crawl. I've been trying to download a 34mb game demo for the past 3 nights, and each time I get a burst of 300kb/sec for a minute, and then it gets down to a 9kb/sec crawl. I know it's not the ftp site the game files on, as my normal home page browsing is slow as well. Remember, they are short at least one satellite right now, so additional capacity may be slow in coming. If cable modems are available where you live, then avoid this product. If your only other choice is ISDN, then maybe look into duplexing two regular 56k v90 modems with your ISP first, before getting this dish. I'm stuck with it now, but If I did not have that $500 frisbee on my roof, I'd probably just get an extra phone line, and duplex 2 modems together, since paying usage for ISDN is not an option for me, as I'm online over 200 hours a month.

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