anybody have experience with this outfit?

[Jerry McBride]

 On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:45:39AM -0500, dep took 17 lines to write:
> http://www.direcway.com
>
> i'm contemplating a move to a place where there's no cable, no dsl. this
> appears to be the lone alternative. almost sounds too good to be true.
> anybody know about these guys?

Here in New Jersey, the deal without the bullshit is: about $600.00 up front 
for the equipment and installation and $60.00 a month. For that you get 50k 
uploads and about 500k downloads via sattelite. The downloads are monitored 
and one you exceed a daily limit of 169Meg, you can be throttled back to 
almost 50k download also via their fair usage policy... The equipment, 
regardless what you are told by Hughes, is OS agnostic...

For another $20.00 per month you can get the professional package which is 
pretty much the same as home user, but you get a 350Meg daily limit...

You can read the details for yourself at: 
http://hns.getdway.com/home_service.html

Basically, if you DON'T live in the woods, it's a very expensive, bum deal. If 
you live in the woods and you want internet... it's about all the only choice 
you have and it works quite well.

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