[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?

[Jeanine Kern]

I've been mostly a lurker, but in light of this thread feel I finally have
something to offer.

I live in a very remote area of Snohomish County and have a satellite
internet connection, provided by Hughes, but subcontracted through Earthlink
(so I could keep my Earthlink email account).  I have had it for almost
three years and can probably count on one hand the number of times I've lost
connectivity, and its usually very, very brief while an unusually strong
thunder and lightning storm passes by (and I live up against the foothills
of the Cascade mountains so I get more weather than most), or when there is
an episode of sunspots.  Most outages last just a few seconds, I can only
think of one time when I was offline for a few minutes, but never more. 

Its not cheap at $70/mo, but I am completely independent of phone lines.  My
neighbor building his house cut the phone line last weekend and I still had
internet access.  The power goes out, and with a backup generator I still
have internet access.  The only downfall is you have to go out in the winter
and sweep the snow off the dish, snow does interfere with connectivity.

Anyway, I've had DSL when I lived in the city and this by far blows DSL
away.  I have connectivity speeds rivaling high speed DSL.  

Hope that helps.  Its food for thought anyway.


Jeanine Kern
EBS Northwest, Inc.
Phone 360-863-0376
Fax 360-294-5082
Jeanine at ebs-northwest.com
www.ebs-northwest.com

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