I just called DISH, to get a second single reciever they will add a $5.00 per month lease - so then directtv is the same price. I'll have to decide if I really want satellite internet or not.<br><br>But is really compelling to not have to buy or make any additional control box or dongle if I can control the Directv boxes with standard usb cables.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Munson</b> <<a href="mailto:william_munson@bellsouth.net">william_munson@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Brian Wood wrote:<br>> Tim Litwiller wrote:<br>><br>>> I was thinking DISH because you can get Internet thru Wildblue on the<br>>> same dish. As far as I know DiectTV doesn't have a TV & Internet option
<br>>> on the same dish anymore.<br>>><br>><br>> I wasn't suggesting either service, juat making sure you were aware of<br>> as many facts as possible.<br>><br>> The problem I've run into with any sort of satellite internet service is
<br>> latency, especially on pages with a lot of DNS lookups. The providers<br>> usually have some sort of method of caching DNS but that might only work<br>> with Windows, and of course is only helpful after the first access. You
<br>> might want to run your own caching-only DNS server if not accessing<br>> through a Windows box.<br>><br>> Once you actually get a transfer started the speed is OK, it's just<br>> getting ti going that's time consuming, and I really hate it when the
<br>> latency delays are to get a lot of ads from remote servers on the page.<br>><br>><br>><br>Also there is this "fair use clause" that will bite you in the butt.<br>Dont even think about downloading a dvd as they will throttle your speed
<br>way back after the first few hundred Megs. Pretty much killed that for<br>me. Of course if its the only game in town, its your money....<br><br>Another big difference between dish and direc is the content. If you are<br>
really into football then direc is for you. Also its faster and easier<br>to change channels with the serial cable than with the MyBlaster but<br>again, its your money. (PS - I am the author of the MyBlaster control<br>scripts for linux so I am not bashing that product at all, its just
<br>cheaper to buy 2 serial cables than one MyBlaster. You have to set the<br>2nd dish to remote code 9 and use the other set of codes provided by the<br>latest drivers available from <a href="http://Sourceforge.net">Sourceforge.net
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