Greetings Vic:> I'll try again form home tonight and see if it's system specific.
OK, please keep me posted.
> BTW, after all the fussing around with telco, SBC and DSL, they finally
> made some changes and I'm running at 1.2K now!
Great! How about consistency? Going fast is great, but if it goes offline intermittently, it kind of spoils it, right?
I've been going round and round with the sat company today. You may recall they were *supposed* to install my net sat connection today. Well, my appointment was at 9-10am. At 10:30 I phone the installer (Entertainment Lifestyles in Santa Maria, CA) and the guy tells me that they won't be coming out to install the system (nice of them to tell me) today because they haven't been able to get the systems to work since Hughes (the company that runs DirecWay) changed transponders a couple of weeks ago, yadda, yadda, yadda, and he hasn't been paid for the systems he's installed (that don't work... yadda, yadda, yadda), and he's not rescheduling anyone for installation indefinitely.
Short story is, I phoned DirecWay to find out what's up with that and they're going supposed to have an installer from outside the area come in to install my system. Well, I'm beginning to think the worst--like the DSL fiascoes, Ben ain't gonna get sat net service anytime soon either.
Well, I'm holding out hope that this other installer is going to call, and that Hughes isn't going out of business already or anytime soon. Will keep you posted on my oddessy. <sigh>
Ben
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