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Rakkety_Tamm
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06 Jan 2005, 8:41 pm

How do I get a broadband phone to work with Direcway DSL?

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06 Jan 2005, 10:59 pm

Its funny that they call it "dsl" when it is "satelite" broadband...

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07 Jan 2005, 7:46 pm

I have a dish for my internet, and it is Direct Satalite Linkup, it is almost as fast as a T1

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07 Jan 2005, 7:56 pm

Rakkety_Tamm wrote:

I have a dish for my internet, and it is Direct Satalite Linkup, it is almost as fast as a T1

But the latency of a satellite makes the speed worthless for a lot of things.

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13 Jan 2005, 6:22 pm

I know I can't use online games, but does that mean I spent the money on the stuff for nothin?

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14 Jan 2005, 10:05 pm

The time it takes for the uplink/downlink gets so long that voice has an echo but works fine for most web surfing. So for normal use email web access a sat works ok not for low ping time games and voice over internet.

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