Wireless Internet options

[Drew Taylor]

Ouch on the latency! That's what I figured. The price is OK, but 500ms is a 
far cry from my once 20ms ping to the gateway with Speakeasy. :-( I'm 
guessing that this would not be an option if I wanted to do any serving 
from home either. And the fact that online gaming is expressely not 
supported is a bummer, even though I'm not a big gamer. Thanks for the info.

Drew

At 11:43 AM 8/21/02 -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
>For Earthlink "home" service:
>
>$400 for hardware
>$200 for installation
>$70/month for 400 Kbps download, 60 Kbps upload
>
>Well, you're going to be disappointed: Earthlink sales quotes a "five to six
>second" round trip delay, and although I'm sure it's shorter, it's never
>going to match a terrestrial link. The usual number used for geostationary
>birds is 500ms, but that's for dedicated channels and DirectWay's bandwidth
>is spread a lot thinner than that.

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