I've stayed at hotels around the country which had CAIS as the high-speed
Internet provider for hotel room access (a charge of$10 a day). You plug
in your laptop's 10BaseT connection into their drop, they give you a
private IP address via DHCP and you fire up a Web browser (they intercept
your web session and redirect it to their internal website where you accept
their TOS and charge). The hotel high-speed Internet access business is
a niche market of theirs.
They are headquartered in DC according to their website : www.cais.net
- H. Morrow Long
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> Hi,
>
> As we look for a replacement for our sloooow 56k Frame Relay Internet access
> line for our company ($377/month), I found that DSL service is not yet
> available in my area, but, a company called CAIS Internet is offering me
> satellite access for $329 a month at speeds "ranging from 384kbps to 768kbps
> to 1mbps to 1.5mbps - it will change all the time".
>
> This sounds interesting. It would entail putting a VSAT box in our building,
> connected to a dish outside. My question is, has anyone tried this
> technology, and if so, any comments? The sales guy said it's about as
> reliable as my frame connection. We would need very limited downtime (we're
> probably at 1day/year of downtime right now with our Frame line). He also
> said this technology is quite new - having been introduced in December of
> 2000. Having not seen much about it, I was wondering what comments you
> guys/gals may have about it. Also, anyone have any thoughts about CAIS? I
> can't even tell where they're located from the email.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Evan
>
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