i have several things to say about DirecWay (DirecTV's satellite ISP) (note that I never had it myself but did do a good amount of research on it)
1. latency is high, 500+ms;
2. the service will go down whenever the TV would normally go down, i.e. heavy rain, snow, accumulated snow on the dish, etc.;
3. download speeds are in the ~500kbps range, but the light rains that wouldn't interfere with TV will affect speeds;
4. cost is unbelievable, when I was looking at it, it was something like $700 for the special 2 way dish (plus extra if you want that dish to also recieve TV) and professional installation (which the FCC mandates due to the power/frequencies involved). the service is about $70 a month, from what I remmeber.
needless to say, for what I wanted it for (gaming mostly) it wasn't worth it, and even if I had the money I wouldn't have gone with it. however, a CEO type person would probably not care about the high latency or high price, and the download speeds would be easily 10 times faster than dialup (maybe even better, I seem to remember getting ~30k speeds on a 56k modem with the quality/distance of the phonelines).
yeah, I think that covers it. |
