o.t any opinions on sbc dsl service????
12-15-2005, 03:39 PM
#31
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Re: o.t any opinions on sbc dsl service????
Hi Earle,
Do you still use satellite at home? My Son's Mother-in-law tells me
she doesn't have to use the phone to upload.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Earle Horton wrote:
>
> That is one of the best summaries of the problems with DSL, that I have ever
> read. It's great, until you have a problem.
>
> Earle
Do you still use satellite at home? My Son's Mother-in-law tells me
she doesn't have to use the phone to upload.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Earle Horton wrote:
>
> That is one of the best summaries of the problems with DSL, that I have ever
> read. It's great, until you have a problem.
>
> Earle
12-16-2005, 03:41 AM
#32
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Re: o.t any opinions on sbc dsl service????
I had StarBand at first, which doesn't use a phone return line either. It
was nothing but problems. Your local installation is also a transmitter, so
you have to have a "certified installer" install it. Where I live they want
$100 just to drive out there. The big problem is that with satellite
return, the delay to ping somebody on the net is at least a half second,
more like a whole second in practice. Lots of servers (web sites mostly)
have problems with that. StarBand used caching software on their servers,
to try to make up for this lack. It was crashing and overloading all the
time, and it appears also that the company had a habit of oversubscribing
and thereby overloading the servers. I have heard that the DirecWay
satellite return systems are prone to the same sort of problems.
I finally got fed up and bought a DirecWay phone line system (old name
DirecPC) just before they stopped selling them. It has performed faithfully
and with very few interruptions for more than three years. It uses a phone
line for upload, but what the Hell. On the very few times it has been down,
I simply used the phone to connect.
I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
doesn't?
Earle
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:43A1D46F.2F27FBA7@***.net...
> Hi Earle,
> Do you still use satellite at home? My Son's Mother-in-law tells me
> she doesn't have to use the phone to upload.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Earle Horton wrote:
> >
> > That is one of the best summaries of the problems with DSL, that I have
ever
> > read. It's great, until you have a problem.
> >
> > Earle
was nothing but problems. Your local installation is also a transmitter, so
you have to have a "certified installer" install it. Where I live they want
$100 just to drive out there. The big problem is that with satellite
return, the delay to ping somebody on the net is at least a half second,
more like a whole second in practice. Lots of servers (web sites mostly)
have problems with that. StarBand used caching software on their servers,
to try to make up for this lack. It was crashing and overloading all the
time, and it appears also that the company had a habit of oversubscribing
and thereby overloading the servers. I have heard that the DirecWay
satellite return systems are prone to the same sort of problems.
I finally got fed up and bought a DirecWay phone line system (old name
DirecPC) just before they stopped selling them. It has performed faithfully
and with very few interruptions for more than three years. It uses a phone
line for upload, but what the Hell. On the very few times it has been down,
I simply used the phone to connect.
I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
doesn't?
Earle
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:43A1D46F.2F27FBA7@***.net...
> Hi Earle,
> Do you still use satellite at home? My Son's Mother-in-law tells me
> she doesn't have to use the phone to upload.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Earle Horton wrote:
> >
> > That is one of the best summaries of the problems with DSL, that I have
ever
> > read. It's great, until you have a problem.
> >
> > Earle
12-16-2005, 03:41 AM
#33
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Re: o.t any opinions on sbc dsl service????
I had StarBand at first, which doesn't use a phone return line either. It
was nothing but problems. Your local installation is also a transmitter, so
you have to have a "certified installer" install it. Where I live they want
$100 just to drive out there. The big problem is that with satellite
return, the delay to ping somebody on the net is at least a half second,
more like a whole second in practice. Lots of servers (web sites mostly)
have problems with that. StarBand used caching software on their servers,
to try to make up for this lack. It was crashing and overloading all the
time, and it appears also that the company had a habit of oversubscribing
and thereby overloading the servers. I have heard that the DirecWay
satellite return systems are prone to the same sort of problems.
I finally got fed up and bought a DirecWay phone line system (old name
DirecPC) just before they stopped selling them. It has performed faithfully
and with very few interruptions for more than three years. It uses a phone
line for upload, but what the Hell. On the very few times it has been down,
I simply used the phone to connect.
I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
doesn't?
Earle
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:43A1D46F.2F27FBA7@***.net...
> Hi Earle,
> Do you still use satellite at home? My Son's Mother-in-law tells me
> she doesn't have to use the phone to upload.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Earle Horton wrote:
> >
> > That is one of the best summaries of the problems with DSL, that I have
ever
> > read. It's great, until you have a problem.
> >
> > Earle
was nothing but problems. Your local installation is also a transmitter, so
you have to have a "certified installer" install it. Where I live they want
$100 just to drive out there. The big problem is that with satellite
return, the delay to ping somebody on the net is at least a half second,
more like a whole second in practice. Lots of servers (web sites mostly)
have problems with that. StarBand used caching software on their servers,
to try to make up for this lack. It was crashing and overloading all the
time, and it appears also that the company had a habit of oversubscribing
and thereby overloading the servers. I have heard that the DirecWay
satellite return systems are prone to the same sort of problems.
I finally got fed up and bought a DirecWay phone line system (old name
DirecPC) just before they stopped selling them. It has performed faithfully
and with very few interruptions for more than three years. It uses a phone
line for upload, but what the Hell. On the very few times it has been down,
I simply used the phone to connect.
I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
doesn't?
Earle
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:43A1D46F.2F27FBA7@***.net...
> Hi Earle,
> Do you still use satellite at home? My Son's Mother-in-law tells me
> she doesn't have to use the phone to upload.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Earle Horton wrote:
> >
> > That is one of the best summaries of the problems with DSL, that I have
ever
> > read. It's great, until you have a problem.
> >
> > Earle
12-16-2005, 03:41 AM
#34
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Re: o.t any opinions on sbc dsl service????
I had StarBand at first, which doesn't use a phone return line either. It
was nothing but problems. Your local installation is also a transmitter, so
you have to have a "certified installer" install it. Where I live they want
$100 just to drive out there. The big problem is that with satellite
return, the delay to ping somebody on the net is at least a half second,
more like a whole second in practice. Lots of servers (web sites mostly)
have problems with that. StarBand used caching software on their servers,
to try to make up for this lack. It was crashing and overloading all the
time, and it appears also that the company had a habit of oversubscribing
and thereby overloading the servers. I have heard that the DirecWay
satellite return systems are prone to the same sort of problems.
I finally got fed up and bought a DirecWay phone line system (old name
DirecPC) just before they stopped selling them. It has performed faithfully
and with very few interruptions for more than three years. It uses a phone
line for upload, but what the Hell. On the very few times it has been down,
I simply used the phone to connect.
I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
doesn't?
Earle
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:43A1D46F.2F27FBA7@***.net...
> Hi Earle,
> Do you still use satellite at home? My Son's Mother-in-law tells me
> she doesn't have to use the phone to upload.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Earle Horton wrote:
> >
> > That is one of the best summaries of the problems with DSL, that I have
ever
> > read. It's great, until you have a problem.
> >
> > Earle
was nothing but problems. Your local installation is also a transmitter, so
you have to have a "certified installer" install it. Where I live they want
$100 just to drive out there. The big problem is that with satellite
return, the delay to ping somebody on the net is at least a half second,
more like a whole second in practice. Lots of servers (web sites mostly)
have problems with that. StarBand used caching software on their servers,
to try to make up for this lack. It was crashing and overloading all the
time, and it appears also that the company had a habit of oversubscribing
and thereby overloading the servers. I have heard that the DirecWay
satellite return systems are prone to the same sort of problems.
I finally got fed up and bought a DirecWay phone line system (old name
DirecPC) just before they stopped selling them. It has performed faithfully
and with very few interruptions for more than three years. It uses a phone
line for upload, but what the Hell. On the very few times it has been down,
I simply used the phone to connect.
I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
doesn't?
Earle
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:43A1D46F.2F27FBA7@***.net...
> Hi Earle,
> Do you still use satellite at home? My Son's Mother-in-law tells me
> she doesn't have to use the phone to upload.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Earle Horton wrote:
> >
> > That is one of the best summaries of the problems with DSL, that I have
ever
> > read. It's great, until you have a problem.
> >
> > Earle
12-16-2005, 11:01 PM
#38
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Re: o.t any opinions on sbc dsl service????
Nick wrote:
>>I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
>>doesn't?
>>
>
>
> Me Suegra? I think it origanally started as a curse word, but evolved into
> 'mother in law'
>
Yes, but in the English language, 'mother-in-law' IS a curse.
>>I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
>>doesn't?
>>
>
>
> Me Suegra? I think it origanally started as a curse word, but evolved into
> 'mother in law'
>
Yes, but in the English language, 'mother-in-law' IS a curse.
12-16-2005, 11:01 PM
#39
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Re: o.t any opinions on sbc dsl service????
Nick wrote:
>>I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
>>doesn't?
>>
>
>
> Me Suegra? I think it origanally started as a curse word, but evolved into
> 'mother in law'
>
Yes, but in the English language, 'mother-in-law' IS a curse.
>>I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
>>doesn't?
>>
>
>
> Me Suegra? I think it origanally started as a curse word, but evolved into
> 'mother in law'
>
Yes, but in the English language, 'mother-in-law' IS a curse.
12-16-2005, 11:01 PM
#40
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Re: o.t any opinions on sbc dsl service????
Nick wrote:
>>I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
>>doesn't?
>>
>
>
> Me Suegra? I think it origanally started as a curse word, but evolved into
> 'mother in law'
>
Yes, but in the English language, 'mother-in-law' IS a curse.
>>I wonder why Spanish has a word for "Son's Mother-in-law" but English
>>doesn't?
>>
>
>
> Me Suegra? I think it origanally started as a curse word, but evolved into
> 'mother in law'
>
Yes, but in the English language, 'mother-in-law' IS a curse.