LAN Question?

[carpenator]

Dean,

I just went up to WildBlue and looked at their price structure. If you are in the Select Pak group, your upload is up to 200kbs which is .2 mega bits per sec. The speed is decent if you are in a rural area. For those who are not like us dinosaurs and remember when kilobytes were the big number, it is easy to get them switched around. Your 100mb nic will do you fine.

Now there is a lot of new technology that is being discussed that will ramp speeds up, but they are still a little ways off. There is technology being released that would allow speeds of up to 200mbps over phone wire, but that is going to be shared speed, so you divide that by 1000 homes using it and results may vary.

A speed of 200mbps commercially would require DS4 fiber connection with 4026 channels and would run roughly $18,000 a month just for the line, not to mention the Internet cost. Plus that is the line to the phone company. If you need to run that line to the Internet provider, than it is another $18,000 a month.

Now if I am wrong, and some how you are getting those speeds, I will be going Satellite here real soon, even if I have to get a permit to build the Eiffel tower in my back yard.

Good luck!

[PrOLifIC_onE]

Originally Posted by carpenator

Now if I am wrong, and some how you are getting those speeds, I will be going Satellite here real soon, even if I have to get a permit to build the Eiffel tower in my back yard.

Your not wrong Carp, Satellite will not be getting 200mbps before landlines, maybe someday with some new technology, but not today.

Dean, your internet connection speeds are approximately: 0.5mbps download and 0.06mbps upload (about 10x better than dialup), so it looks like you are all set until a faster broadband (DSL or Cable) comes to your area.

[deantn]

Well living in the "bonnies", and after having to put up with dial-up for all these years, satelitte is a blessing.
Have the lowest pac they offer and am satisfied with it so far. Bandwidth is another thing altogether, almost used most of it in the first two weeks so have to slow down a little.
According to "ATT" we might have DSL lines in here in a year or so, been doing a lot of work on the lines around here lately so maybe DSL soon.
Not complaining about speed after being on dial-up and having no other chose until now with WildBlue.

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by deantn

Well living in the "bonnies", and after having to put up with dial-up for all these years, satelitte is a blessing.
Have the lowest pac they offer and am satisfied with it so far. Bandwidth is another thing altogether, almost used most of it in the first two weeks so have to slow down a little.
According to "ATT" we might have DSL lines in here in a year or so, been doing a lot of work on the lines around here lately so maybe DSL soon.
Not complaining about speed after being on dial-up and having no other chose until now with WildBlue.

I have a question, does your upload use dial up? Or is it bi-directional satellite?

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

I have a question, does your upload use dial up? Or is it bi-directional satellite?

IIRC satellite is bi-directional, and has been for many years.

[deantn]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

I have a question, does your upload use dial up? Or is it bi-directional satellite?

It is bi-directional, slower than DL speed but better than Dial-up speeds altogether.