[ale] Satellite service

[John Wells]

Matt,

I live in Kennesaw as well.  Been waiting on DSL for
around a year now, and I checked it this week and it's
finally available.  You might want to Bellsouth's
fastaccess.com page again.

John


--- Matt Shade <mshade at threekay.com> wrote:
> It's been over a year since I moved up to Kennesaw
> and left my DSL behind in Buckhead. When I moved, BS
> told me "1st quarter 2001" DSL would be available in
> my neighborhood. Mediaone (AT&T) told me the same
> thing for broadband cable. Well, I'm coming up on a
> year past those dates, and I'm still using dialup
> which gives me AT BEST 28.8kbps speeds. I decided to
> go the only available route - satellite internet. I
> called Earthlink this week and have an installer
> coming out next Thursday. I just couldn't bear the
> speed (or lack of) anymore, and a year and a half is
> patience enough.
> 
> Is anyone else using (or has anyone else used)
> DirectPC? Is there anything I should know or do
> beforehand? Does anyone have any experiences (good
> or bad) they want to share? I have been going to
> dslreports.com fairly regularly for the last year or
> so, and there's a lot of mixed feelings, but I
> rarely see any opinions of DirectPC && Earthlink. 
> 
> matt shade
> www.threekay.com
> 
> P.S. I've tried the Ricochet/Metrocom wireless modem
> thing....not much better speed and lousy tech
> support. And I'm about 50,000+ ft from my CO, so
> even ADSL is not an option, though I wouldnt' go for
> it even if it were.
> 


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