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Alabama's Broadband Tide

BROADBAND INITIATIVE â€" If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you’ll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called “Redneck Riviera,” at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. â€" No more...

Tags: Initiative, Broadband, Alabama, DirecWay, RV, Johnson, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Satellite seeks broadband re-entry

Satellite seeks broadband re-entryKa band problemsWhen satellite TV went from the big dish (C-Band) to the little dish (Ku-Band) we got rain fade. The equation between the refractive index of water and the Ku frequency transmitted from the satellite is what causes it. The higher the frequency, the higher the...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, latency, Broadband Satellite, DirecWay, satellite, broadband

Discussion threads 2004-03-11

Additional Resources

28ò0of rural Americans without broadband say broadband is not available where they live

28ò0of rural Americans without broadband say broadband is not available where they liveAnd your point is?Why does this even have a place on the News and Blogs sidebar? It isn't really news and there is certainly no original content in it.This is not true!There has been satellite broadband available...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, satellite

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Why Satellite Internet service is so slow

Why Satellite Internet service is so slowReal world is worse.Ping statistics for 75.104.128.61: Packets: Sent = 25, Received = 22, Lost = 3 (12% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 626ms, Maximum = 3690ms, Average = 1385msThis is the nameserver within WildBlue's...

Tags: Network technology, Real World, Embarq, satellite, Satellite Internet Service, satellite Internet, latency

Discussion threads 2008-02-24

Why metered Internet is a really bad idea

Why metered Internet is a really bad ideaONLY if I could effectively block ...."Metered"service would make me pay TWICE for all the adds ZDnetinserts in each page. Once to access the internet and again topay for the gigabytes of data I would be forced to download toread ANYTHING!If ZDNet,...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, Broadband Internet, Internet, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Cox

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Satstat 1.1 (Mac)

Satstat is a small menu extra which displays the status of your DirecWay satellite connection, as well as diagnostic information when clicked.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Satellite, Vortimac Software, Satstat, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2006-02-06

Start-up puts broadband plans into orbit

Start-up puts broadband plans into orbitIf that is all that you can get OKDirecway at $600.00 upfront plus installation then $60.00 a month takes a big byte out of your shorts. I hope the service has gotten better. A bud of mione that "really" lives in the...

Tags: Network technology, TV & Home Theater, broadband plan, broadband

Discussion threads 2004-07-19

WiMax in the wings

WiMax in the wingssounds good.....if you live in the desert,where it never rains.If it's anything like satellite tv it will be next to useless when it rains.Excellent technology and alternativeIt's good to see Intel and others provide an alternative option and competition for broadband services.Hopefully, this exciting technology will allow...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-06-26