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To: Jay Fisk who wrote (121)	9/11/1999 2:51:00 AM
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The Hughes dish isn't an option for many because of it's limited uplink capability.(no sattelite uplink, it's 56k modem up, satellite down) It also has a bit of a lag to it, since the command goes from your modem to their location, to the satellite uplink location, to the high orbit satellite and back to you, so streaming meadia(like quotes) often doesn't work. Worst of all, like most of the high speed promises, real world performance on the Hughes is fairly anemic, and if you exceed a certain amount of bandwidth they back you down to 56k speeds. At least that's the way it was a few months ago, when many of their customers we're banding together to file class action suits. Springfield is further out in the sticks than you might think, and we've had a bear of a time getting high speed access to the nuclear plant. A T1 is $1500ish a month, partials are like a $1000(plus there's a 1 year minimum lease time) no DSL or cable modem on the horizon, not even ISDN. There is a local ISP that would all but give away there excess bandwidth, but it cost almost full T1 prices to run a point to point line to them. Phone companies are such ass draggers. They'd rather sell one T1 to an ISP for $1500, and let all the ISP customers buy a second phone line, than upgrade to DSL and sell 100 DSL lines for $50 a pop. There is a market in smaller cities for microwave right now, but it's not worth pursuing in most cases, because before the startup cost can be recouped, DSL or cable will reach the area. It's sort of like the same thing that killed IRID. By the time they were up and running, cellular had grown enough to take all the customers.(or at least enough to make it profitable) Mr. Burns