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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert b furman who wrote (16886)	12/18/2005 9:19:46 PM
From: etchmeister	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Is that through Direct TV? It's Direcway - same technology but I don't know how they are related. Once or twice during winter with very heavy rain I had (temporary) trouble with dish; I'm not sure if snow showers would be a problem. Since using the dish (6 weeks or so) I had to power down modem twice - after "rebooting" everything back to normal. Modem stays on all time. E-mail service was out once for half a day or so. There's no dish icon on right lower corner that displays connection status/transfer rate. There is way to check it (you have to link into system control center which displays status). I don't have a comparision to cable but downloading MS ServicePack 2 via dial up is just a nightmare - even updating some Norton updates via dial up can be a nightmare.