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echo: bbs_internet
to: mark lewis
from: Mike Miller
date: 2002-12-04 21:22:26
subject: satelite internet (was: )

Hello mark.

04 Dec 02 09:05, you wrote to Jay Fuller:


 JF>> DirecPC will be nice and let you pay for it $100 at a time.
 JF>> 

 ml> that service is called DirectWay... i'm not sure what they charge as
 ml> their rate or if they allow servers to be run on the service or even
 ml> if it is metered service... however, they purport to provide speeds
 ml> that rival a T1... for $100/month at T1 speeds, that's a pretty darned
 ml> good price, all things considered...

I'd always heard there were huge latency lissues with sattelite... so running 
a BBS wouldn't be an issue, but online gaming would be virtually impossible.


Mike

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