From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.26]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 344555 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:36:33 -0400 Message-ID: <45036C24.4090502@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:36:36 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Satellite providers (Was Hotspots: Play-for-Feevs Play-for-Free) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/09/06 10:06 am, Sam Lewis thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >> On 09/07/06 08:05 pm, Sam Lewis thus wrote : >> >>> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>> >>>> This is all *great* wireless info, Arjan. Thanks again for sharing >>>> it. My exprience with Direcway has been rather lousy, though th >>>> 7000-series hardware is much easier to use than the old proxy >>>> software on the Wintendo box solution. >>> >>> >>> Is that the same 7000 series you were saying DirecPC uses? >>> Thanks, >> >> Yep. Direcway, DirecPC, Earthlink Satellite, and Hughes Satellite are >> all the same stuff (Hughes), marketed by different partners. >> > So according to your's and Arjan's experience those would be the one's > to stay away from? Yes, unless as a last resort. Though as we've said, the 7000-series equipment is a significant improvement over what we used to have to deal with. My last experience with Starband was some time ago, now, so I can't draw a fair comparison. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------