[ale] Satellite service

[Matt Shade]

It's been over a year since I moved up to Kennesaw and left my 
DSL behind in Buckhead. When I moved, BS told me "1st quarter 2001" DSL would be 
available in my neighborhood. Mediaone (AT&T) told me the same thing for 
broadband cable. Well, I'm coming up on a year past those dates, and I'm still 
using dialup which gives me AT BEST 28.8kbps speeds. I decided to go the only 
available route - satellite internet. I called Earthlink this week and have an 
installer coming out next Thursday. I just couldn't bear the speed (or lack of) 
anymore, and a year and a half is patience enough.
 
Is anyone else using (or has anyone else used) DirectPC? Is 
there anything I should know or do beforehand? Does anyone have any experiences 
(good or bad) they want to share? I have been going to dslreports.com fairly 
regularly for the last year or so, and there's a lot of mixed feelings, but I 
rarely see any opinions of DirectPC && Earthlink. 
 
matt shade<A 
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P.S. I've tried the Ricochet/Metrocom wireless modem 
thing....not much better speed and lousy tech support. And I'm about 50,000+ ft 
from my CO, so even ADSL is not an option, though I wouldnt' go for it even if 
it were.