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>> On 4/4/2012 2:50 AM, z wrote:
>> > Hydro is still working..
>>
>> Great to hear from you Zach! I've been wondering.
>>
>> > Hope you all are well.
>>
>> Just fine at this end.
>>
>> >I finally got a hughsnet link so no more phone
>> > lines for interernet. Sucker takes 70 watts though
>>
>> Wow, that's serious! Do you keep it on 24/7?
>>
>> >and now if the phone goes out I'm still connected!
>>
>> I think Hughsnet has too much latency for VOIP, but I just fired AT&T
>> after being a regular customer for over a half-century. It felt good!
>> Now we use cable Internet and OOMA VOIP. The change cut our
>> communications bill in half. I kept my old phone number, but left
>> 90% of the crappy spam sales calls behind. OOMA filters them out!
>> Silence is golden.
>>
>> > P.S. still watching the group for a post showing one of those magic
>> > magnetic power systems that you put together to get free power out
>> > of it and costs about 100 bucks to make. Still no love on that
>> > front huh?
>>
>> Those types are still around. One in particular.
>>
>> Vaughn
>
> Don't know about HughesNet, but StarBand runs Skype just fine even
> with video, with only a few small dropouts.... Momma and I use it all
> the time, when she is deployed.... Just Say'en.... YMMV.....
I'll have to try it. I see starband uses basically the same tech as
hughsnet and both are running 22,000 mile round trip for transmissions so
the lag is probably similar.
>
>> On 4/4/2012 2:50 AM, z wrote:
>> > Hydro is still working..
>>
>> Great to hear from you Zach! I've been wondering.
>>
>> > Hope you all are well.
>>
>> Just fine at this end.
>>
>> >I finally got a hughsnet link so no more phone
>> > lines for interernet. Sucker takes 70 watts though
>>
>> Wow, that's serious! Do you keep it on 24/7?
>>
>> >and now if the phone goes out I'm still connected!
>>
>> I think Hughsnet has too much latency for VOIP, but I just fired AT&T
>> after being a regular customer for over a half-century. It felt good!
>> Now we use cable Internet and OOMA VOIP. The change cut our
>> communications bill in half. I kept my old phone number, but left
>> 90% of the crappy spam sales calls behind. OOMA filters them out!
>> Silence is golden.
>>
>> > P.S. still watching the group for a post showing one of those magic
>> > magnetic power systems that you put together to get free power out
>> > of it and costs about 100 bucks to make. Still no love on that
>> > front huh?
>>
>> Those types are still around. One in particular.
>>
>> Vaughn
>
> Don't know about HughesNet, but StarBand runs Skype just fine even
> with video, with only a few small dropouts.... Momma and I use it all
> the time, when she is deployed.... Just Say'en.... YMMV.....