bigbadsoftwaredaddy - Slashdot User

Comment Try Direcway from DirecTv!! (Score 1) 259

by bigbadsoftwaredaddy on Thursday May 02, 2002 @03:09PM (#3452560) Attached to: Is Starband's Satellite Internet Service Palatable?

http://directv.direcway.com/main/index.html I have been using this service for 1 month now with mix results. I have seen the latencies that many have mentioned, although those can partially be mitigated through the use of a Caching DNS Server on the client side. Download speeds have been pretty good 400 kb/s - 1800 kb/s. The FAP (Fair Access Policy) also seems less aggressive/punitive than Starband's policy.

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