On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM, James Noble <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/2/16 Jason Hall <[email protected]> > >> On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Joshua Marsh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Feb 16, 2012 10:53 PM, "Chris Mutchler" <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > Thank you all for the quick replies! I'll check out Direct Communications >> > and see what they offer at the home. What about OTA TV. AtennaWeb seems >> to >> > suggest I'll need a medium to large directional antenna. Will the $100 >> for >> > that be worth the signal or will I be better off going with a satellite >> >> > I have Directcom. The people that lived in this house before me had Digis > and it was terrible. Down all the time and when it was up it was as slow > as dial up. Directcom has been fairly good. Coming from Comcast at my > last house it is much slower. It can be very slow when everyone is on it > in the evening. About a third of the time I am unable to watch youtube > when I want(which isn't often). It also disconnects randomly so if you use > connections that you want left open all the time it can go down. I don't > notice it down when I am just surfing the internet though. I have heard of > someone out here who does wireless. It is about the same price as > Directcom but it seems like it is a hobby for the guy. He does have quite > a few people on it though and I heard from one person that it is pretty > good. Unfortunately I don't know much more about it than that. Directcom > has been just good enough for me to not jump ship.
I have noticed usable bandwidth drops in the evening, but it still always is usable. I haven't had the intermittent drops since I moved from the old copper to a place with fiber. In fact I know they had to switch out a card a few years back at my old house, and that made a big difference in my connectivity. At my new house it's been quite reliable. Digis is completely oversold in the area, and worthless for anything other than simple browsing, though I hear people who get on the non-canopy gear are better off. Rapidwave has a lot more available bandwidth to their users. -- Jayce^ Preparing Deseret - UtahPreppers ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
