[plug] adsl opinions & clarification & DSL300

[Ben Jensz]

Bret Busby wrote:

>From memory, at that time, it was about 
>$800 to get a satellite dish, and about $80 per month.
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Also note, that that would be one way Satellite, so you'd still have to 
have a modem and dial-up somewhere for the outgoing data (so call 
charges there).

Satellite is also affected by weather and has periods during the year 
where it doesn't work entirely (caused by the sun being directly behind 
the Satellie) which is only a short occurance from what I hear (couple 
of hours).  Also there are apparently periods where the signal is 
degraded, hence lower download speeds.

So if you can get ADSL, you'd definetly choose it over Satellite any 
day.  Well I would anyway :)


/ Ben