Steve, I'm on HughesNet when I'm out in Abiquiu, formerly DirecWay, formerly Fox Corp, which I'm fairly sure is on a U.S. bird given what Hughes' other business operations are about.
I'm pretty satisfied with it, with the standard caveat that if you have a choice (DSL, cable, or wireless) take it; if dialup is your only alternative, go for the satellite. Downloads are roughly T-1 speeds; uploads have no minimum guarantee, but I find they're at dialup or better. The latency gets to you (pageloads can feel as slow as dialup if you're clicking through quickly), but you get used to it, and you can stream audio or video, handle fat files and software downloads, etc. Give me a call if you'd like more info, or come by and try it, db dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. www.BreeckerAssociates.com Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 Santa Fe: 505-690-2335 ----- Original Message ----- From: "steve smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:50 PM Subject: [FRIAM] Ooops! was: NISAC ++ > FRIAM - folks - > > Pardon my indiscrete faux-pas. > > That last solicitation for work-leads was intended for Doug only... > > No surprise to most of you, however, that LANL under Bechtel is no > better (and perhaps but not indisputably worse) than under UC > themselves. > > The long-nights and short-days have kept me too busy with stoking a > woodstove whilst tuning an active solar system, and trying to get 10+ > hours of hibernative sleep a night to participate properly in the > FRIAM extravaganza represented here and at various coffee locations in > Santa Fe. But I do enjoy the ebb and flow of ideas presented here. > > I am looking for an alternative to my current dial-up service here in > San Ildefonso... resisting the Sattelite solution up to now. Anyone > with better thoughts are welcome... <= 28K does not entertain. I'm > not convinced that my marginal visual siting of Santa Fe Baldy > constitutes meaningful access to the direct-beam wireless (microwave) > offered to folks in the Tesuque basin and other such areas. But maybe. > > Does anyone know if any of the Satellite systems are not brokered > through Israeli satellites (no anti-semitism... I'm just kinda > anti-zionist)? > > Carry on! > - Steve > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
