Well I am sick of being on dial-up at home and am looking at my options.Looks like I can either stay on dial-up,go with satellite(which I hear sucks),or go with WDSL from TriDigital .
Thats all that I can get in my area and I'm thinking that the wireless is going to be my best option but wanted to get some opinions from people that have used it.I'd like to be able to game and stuff and finally use Xbox Live but is that going to be possible?
Thanks in advance.
Any WDSL users?
Any WDSL users?
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Can't really say, but I am pretty certain Wireless is the best bet, you mean wifi right.
Was that starband or one of the others that lost a satilite recently and had no back up system??? Something about critical error and it went down permanant. They gave the subscribers dialup backup access, real good for alot of people I know of too far out to have a phone!! Those people just sunk with the ship!
Don't know if they ever got the system back online now or not. Last I heard it was gonna take a trip up there to fix it or it had to be replaced with a new satilite altogether, forgot which since I wasn't to interested in it really.
At least repairing WIFI is fast. Getting a man up a tower can be done much quicker than getting him into space if something breaks (and it just did recently)
Speed is dependant on the service, either can be fast or slow. Bandwith can be regulated so that is up to the company and the plan you sign up for. I here gamming that WIFI is smoother faster better, but I am not a gamer so I never tried it. Actually my experince with WIFI is more local than online, but I like it if we ever get some distance going. ISP hasn't done anyting they talked about, and I didn't do anything I was going to do because there were supposed to do it. Now it will probaly be a joint effort, their T1 and my WIFI. I'll build the system and just tap their servers for the net connection.
Do alot of talking and find out DETAILS before getting any WIFI service (or satilite), LOTS of details! We have what I reffer to as a ripp off WIFI here.
$50 charge for them to check to see if they can even provide the service! Why should we pay them $50 to say sorry service can't be done to that house?? And they do charge it!
You have to buy their $800 equipment, if it gets damaged by lighting or just goes bad to bad for you, you have to buy another! Even better is if you disconnect the service you have to give back the equipment you supposedly bought .
No you don't get any money back either!
You only get what you pay for, slower speeds are around $50 a month I think, something like virtaul T1 is around $150 or more per month and speed is not garaunteed, your sharing the bandwith with others so it can be anything for speed!
Long term contract, if their service works like crap to bad you still have to pay for it the full year or two, which ever it was.
This fly by night outfit is selling some type of namebrand service and equipment but forgot which brand.
Most of the details of everything is hidden of course unless you dig for it. They make getting the service easy as paying the $50 site fee, an installation charge, $800 up front for the equipment, and sign a contract fast.
I had Direc PC and it sucked along time ago, seemed great to begin with but as I was on it longer I found more and more problems, and the more I learned about it over a few months time the more I discovered their tech support didn't know beans even though the gave good precise answers, they were wrong!!
I proved that myself! One example was when I was first setting it up, had problems getting it working. Tech told me cable had to be grounded different than I had it, needed other type of cable etc.. So I did it their way, bought expensive ground device, needed 6' of cable but could only get a 100' roll locally so that cost me another $40 etc.. Then once everything was working and I found the satlite I took everything apart and put it back exactly as I had it, it worked exactly the same including signal strength! Latter their tech support could not even figure out why I could not get their software to work in a fresh install on a new hard drive. Every thing was basically exactly the the same, just a new drive and doing a fresh install instead of just what I wanted so it was clean, not copy all the extra trash I didn't want. The biggest reason for the new drive was to do the clean install since something kept crashing my system, latter I found it was there software that was crashing it!!!
On the clean install thier software would get to the point of calling in for activation and after that call it would crash with an error. Took about 15 minutes to get to the crash each time I tried something different. Never did get that working, finnaly I had to install the old drive also and run a daul boot system. If I wanted to work offline I boot to the new drive, if I needed the satilite service I had to reboot to the old drive!! You can imagine what a pain that was!
I kept getting bad crashes in EI, and also the entire system would crash, I also got alot of other errors and page faults and such all the time. That was only on the old drive and the reason I was doing a clean install on the new drive. After I STOPPED using Direc PC and removed all their garbage software all the problems surprisingly went away also!! It was about then that I realised they had not started untill about the same time I started using Direc PC!!!
So as a test latter, my system was running great with no problems, I re-installed the software, it started crashing the same day!! Never did figure out why it would only install on the old drive but not the new one, both were all the same OS and software and of course installed hardware too.
AVOID anything satalite service that has to do with HUGHES and Direc PC!!!
Was that starband or one of the others that lost a satilite recently and had no back up system??? Something about critical error and it went down permanant. They gave the subscribers dialup backup access, real good for alot of people I know of too far out to have a phone!! Those people just sunk with the ship!
Don't know if they ever got the system back online now or not. Last I heard it was gonna take a trip up there to fix it or it had to be replaced with a new satilite altogether, forgot which since I wasn't to interested in it really.
At least repairing WIFI is fast. Getting a man up a tower can be done much quicker than getting him into space if something breaks (and it just did recently)
Speed is dependant on the service, either can be fast or slow. Bandwith can be regulated so that is up to the company and the plan you sign up for. I here gamming that WIFI is smoother faster better, but I am not a gamer so I never tried it. Actually my experince with WIFI is more local than online, but I like it if we ever get some distance going. ISP hasn't done anyting they talked about, and I didn't do anything I was going to do because there were supposed to do it. Now it will probaly be a joint effort, their T1 and my WIFI. I'll build the system and just tap their servers for the net connection.
Do alot of talking and find out DETAILS before getting any WIFI service (or satilite), LOTS of details! We have what I reffer to as a ripp off WIFI here.
$50 charge for them to check to see if they can even provide the service! Why should we pay them $50 to say sorry service can't be done to that house?? And they do charge it!
You have to buy their $800 equipment, if it gets damaged by lighting or just goes bad to bad for you, you have to buy another! Even better is if you disconnect the service you have to give back the equipment you supposedly bought .
No you don't get any money back either!
You only get what you pay for, slower speeds are around $50 a month I think, something like virtaul T1 is around $150 or more per month and speed is not garaunteed, your sharing the bandwith with others so it can be anything for speed!
Long term contract, if their service works like crap to bad you still have to pay for it the full year or two, which ever it was.
This fly by night outfit is selling some type of namebrand service and equipment but forgot which brand.
Most of the details of everything is hidden of course unless you dig for it. They make getting the service easy as paying the $50 site fee, an installation charge, $800 up front for the equipment, and sign a contract fast.
I had Direc PC and it sucked along time ago, seemed great to begin with but as I was on it longer I found more and more problems, and the more I learned about it over a few months time the more I discovered their tech support didn't know beans even though the gave good precise answers, they were wrong!!
I proved that myself! One example was when I was first setting it up, had problems getting it working. Tech told me cable had to be grounded different than I had it, needed other type of cable etc.. So I did it their way, bought expensive ground device, needed 6' of cable but could only get a 100' roll locally so that cost me another $40 etc.. Then once everything was working and I found the satlite I took everything apart and put it back exactly as I had it, it worked exactly the same including signal strength! Latter their tech support could not even figure out why I could not get their software to work in a fresh install on a new hard drive. Every thing was basically exactly the the same, just a new drive and doing a fresh install instead of just what I wanted so it was clean, not copy all the extra trash I didn't want. The biggest reason for the new drive was to do the clean install since something kept crashing my system, latter I found it was there software that was crashing it!!!
On the clean install thier software would get to the point of calling in for activation and after that call it would crash with an error. Took about 15 minutes to get to the crash each time I tried something different. Never did get that working, finnaly I had to install the old drive also and run a daul boot system. If I wanted to work offline I boot to the new drive, if I needed the satilite service I had to reboot to the old drive!! You can imagine what a pain that was!
I kept getting bad crashes in EI, and also the entire system would crash, I also got alot of other errors and page faults and such all the time. That was only on the old drive and the reason I was doing a clean install on the new drive. After I STOPPED using Direc PC and removed all their garbage software all the problems surprisingly went away also!! It was about then that I realised they had not started untill about the same time I started using Direc PC!!!
So as a test latter, my system was running great with no problems, I re-installed the software, it started crashing the same day!! Never did figure out why it would only install on the old drive but not the new one, both were all the same OS and software and of course installed hardware too.
AVOID anything satalite service that has to do with HUGHES and Direc PC!!!
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Well I got the service and am happy with it this far.It was pricey,I chose to pay up front for the equipment which was $790.Not as fast as the cable I had nearly 5 years ago before I moved but it's alot better than dial-up for sure.Only game I've had problems with is CS Source but UT2004 and CS 1.6 run smooth as silk with pings in the 40/90 range.I get those pings in CS Source also but it's laggy as hell,but I see alot of people at the steampowered forums with that complaint.
Waiting on my router and then I'm going to test Xbox Live out.
Waiting on my router and then I'm going to test Xbox Live out.
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