Bret;

Just thought I would comment on one cable provider - AT&T@Home. After the Excite.com problems everything has been working well since the begining of December. Excite.com was the ISP for AT&T in case you did not know.

I am happy with the service as it seems to be transparent at this point - it does not let you know it is there. What is interesting is that I have had no outages since AT&T took over the ISP. With Excite.com we had an average of two outages a week which would last for hours (4-6).

Having said that I will go home tonight and my Internet connection will never work again! Such is life in the "big city"! :) We pay $44.95 a month which includes using a modem from AT&T. If you have your own modem it is $10 less a month. It sure beats a 56K connection! :)

Tom



>>>John,
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>>>>I just installed direcway two way satellite internet system. It seems to work about as good as DSL. The cost was 300 for the hardware, 200 install and 60 per month for unlimited connection. Anyone else using this system yet?
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>>>Sounds cool. How about a URL for the company? I might need this in the future in my Alabama home.
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>>www.direcway.com It's direc tv or Hughes Corporation's animal.
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>>John
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>It says "DIRECTV® programming and systems sold separately" on the website. So the $60/month doesn't include any satellite television service, right?
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>After all the horror stories I've heard about the quality of service from DSL and cable internet providers, maybe Direcway can be worth $60/month just by not screwing up.