On Tuesday June 5 2007 15:15:22 Mike McCarty wrote: > Appreciate that info. However, she's not a TV watcher, and would not pay > for cable. I suppose if the digital line were available w/o having > to pay for TV she might go for it. It would depend on the rates. Brace yourself - it's $60/mo - there's a problem with it, which is latency. Your bits have to travel 26k miles out to space, then back, and then the second round trip for all the hand shaking and so forth. Once a connection is established, it's supposed to pretty fast, but, if you're doing a lot of jumping around from site to site, it's reported to be annoying. Things that are associated with time-outs also tend to occur more frequently. This is all second-hand info from a friend who had it, when I was investigating getting it in rural VA. Then they brought wireless broadband in via land based transmission which was quite nice - it was also $60/mo, though -- Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc. Leesburg, VA
