Speedchoice

Is this phone one way and microwave the other?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
> White
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 6:40 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Speedchoice
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Mike
> > Cantrell
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 9:42 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Speedchoice
> >
> >
> > It's absolutely awful. I had it about 6 months ago and had to
> > drop it. I was
> > reasonably happy with the half duplex but when I switched to the
> > 2 way.... ugh.
> > Lot's of packet loss and latency fluctuation. I couldn't keep a
> > secure shell
> > open to work for more than 5 minutes and it was rare to finish a
> > FTP download.
> > When I talked to their support techs, I told them what was
> > happening and they
> > told me:
> >
> > "Oh, you're using telnet and FTP, that requires a constant
> > connection... you
> > need to go back to the half duplex method."
> >
> > I said, "So what you're telling me is that it's not good for
> > doing anything but
> > viewing web pages and it's not even very good for that?".
> >
> > He says, "Well, you should have told the sales person when you
> > signed up.".
> >
> ---
> telling the sales people what you need when you sign up is a laugh...they
> haven't a clue what they're selling.
>
> I can tell you this because I have been on their system for 9
> months now and
> I have put about 7 clients on their system.
>
> The new setup from Sprint/Earthlink is 1000 percent better - maintaining
> telnet/ftp connections is no problem anymore. Speed is improved.
>
> The current 2 way system (before Sprint Broadband/Earthlink) varies from
> customer to customer and minute to minute varies greatly. Seeing what I am
> seeing in just a few days has caused me to get customers scheduled for
> changeover as soon as possible.
>
> I agree that I would have preferred DSL or possibly Cox but neither are
> available to me at my house or at these clients offices. With the
> new Sprint
> Broadband setup, I am thinking it is possible that this is system is a
> player.
>
> Craig
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