stanley_qaz
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join:2003-03-17
Gilbert, AZ | reply to BlessPat
Re: [General] Consumer Report Nails Direcway
Considering that home accounts don't make DW money it is hard to claim they are overpriced.
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MalaSuerte
join:2004-08-07
Clovis, CA
| said by stanley_qaz  :Considering that home accounts don't make DW money it is hard to claim they are overpriced. Never said consumer accounts don't generate revenue for Dway just that Dway makes most of it's profit from corporate accounts. Ask any VAR on the forum. I don't see any contradiction in that statement. Their service is overpriced compared to cable or DSL - but as we beat this drum again... it still beats dialup or the higher monthly costs of say a T1 or T3.
Most people don't read the Dway contract fine print like diragono did. And..... most people have had to deal with Dway's support. If you haven't had this experience yet consider yourself either a genius or very blessed 
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stanley_qaz
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join:2003-03-17
Gilbert, AZ
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| I just don't see DW as a competitor to cable or DSL, if you have either available and sign up for any consumer satellite service you are probably making a big mistake. Even a decent WISP is a better choice than a satellite service.
For a decent service/price comparison you'd have to look at other "anytime anywhere" connection options that work for folks in remote areas and I'm not aware of any.
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MalaSuerte
join:2004-08-07
Clovis, CA
| said by stanley_qaz :I just don't see DW as a competitor to cable or DSL.... connection options that work for folks in remote areas and I'm not aware of any. Agree with you 100% stan. As mentioned above by guthrieboi and randyvsatus none of us would be on Dway if we had convetional choices.
WISPs seem to be the 'new best thing' with their technology growing quickly. I have a guy offering me a WISP deal that sounds too good to be true - and probably is.
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Rfsjr2
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join:2001-08-11
Ferndale, WA
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said by stanley_qaz :I just don't see DW as a competitor to cable or DSL, They tried that angle and it didn't work. Last time I watched the redhead, the keywords were "dialup" and "second phone line."
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guthrieboi
join:2005-02-05
Guthrie, OK
1 edit | It's interesting that you mention the two buzzwords being dialup and second phone line. When I had dialup I was spending almost $40 a month for the two. I tried the WISP route and got burned badly by a local operator who was...well let's just say less than honest with his customers. I bumped up to the 59.95 package and it still didn't help so I switched over to DWay for the same price and it's been awesome. For about 15 bucks a month more I get broadband and don't have to worry about a second phone line.
DSL is going to continue to get cheaper and cheaper. I think right now here they're advertising it for as little as $16 a month if you take it for a year. That's cheaper than most dial up accounts, but it could be free and it wouldn't do me any good out here. Sure, $60 a month is expensive, but when you consider all that goes into launcing one of those things and all of the maintenance that's involved it's not that bad. I would think corporate accounts would be more desirable because they pay thousands of dollars a month and we only pay a fraction of what they do. All things considered we're the only ones to blame for having DWay. If DSL is that important then we should pack up and move to town rather than sit around and complain.
I agree that many who answered the survey probably didn't read into what they were getting. I too did my research for almost six months before I decided to go with DWay and worried myself sick at night with the FAP, but now that I've been using it I've not had a lick of problems. I was only FAP'd once and I'm a heavy user - actually there's two of us that are heavy users and never knew it until it showed up on my usage report. My only regret was that I didn't get DWay a year ago.
By the way, how come when they take these surveys I never get asked? It's always someone so far away I doubt that they even live on the same continent and never anyone I know.
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Rfsjr2
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| said by guthrieboi :It's interesting that you mention the two buzzwords being dialup and second phone line. Yup, that's it. When I originally got satellite internet back in 2001, I signed up with *Pegasus Express* Why? because I loved their mantra of helping out rural America.
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randyvsatus
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join:2005-03-03
Monument, CO
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said by MalaSuerte :WISPs seem to be the 'new best thing' with their technology growing quickly. I have a guy offering me a WISP deal that sounds too good to be true - and probably is. They haven't been able to make any money...I see more WISP's going than coming. The business model stinks for the most part...by the time a WISP is in a profitable mode, they have the contention ratios so high everyone is complaining and cancelling. |
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grecord
join:2002-01-06
Germantown, MD
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The opinion that speed is the only factor and urban areas would only use wired services overlooks the security and uptime factors satellite provides. We are residential and enterprise satellite broadband installers and find many customers switching from cable\wisp services to get greater reliability. In the corporate world the capability to have lan connectivity to remote sites is unsurpassed. |
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