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Is that my eyes, or two sat dishes?
Is that what all homes in AK have to do?

Look at that, I have the honor of post 800!!

Toaster?

when I wave over mine like dave said he did I get 54 mbps, I'll try your link in a sec...

Stick, you are always thinking, glad you are around....

Here is a pic of the front porch he did today...

if I did it right this is what it said
577.7 Kbps - You 577.7 kbps
hope that helps
I upload webistes and haven't had a problem yet, it is much better than dial up and not that much slower than the DSL adn Cable I've had in the past.

no not all homes in alaska are in the middle of nowhere like us.

We've Starband for the 'net service, I believe I recall them saying do not use satellite for VPN.....something about lag time?

The other plate on the wall is for DISH network.....

Akgirl,

Thanks for checking. 578 kbps sounds about right for satellite. The higher number you are seeing is the wireless LAN speed. You're internet bandwidth is 578 kbps or .57 Mbps. Your speed is being limited by the satellite connection and not your wireless LAN. That's the way it should be.

Beargrease

Dave,

Yeah, VPN did not work with satellite about a year ago and I guess it still does not. I do work with big corporations and you are not getting on their network via the internet without VPN. Thanks for the feedback.

Beargrease

Dave,

I have some additional info if you are interested. You CAN get VPN now for home satellite internet service but only from certain providers. Starband is not one of them. Hughes Network offers it on their ProPlus plan. It seems you need a static IP address to do it. You can also get what is called a VPN accelerator (router) that will speed things up. The Hughes ProPlus plan is also 1.5 Mbps which is 1 Mbps faster than what you have now. So if you want to live in the boonies and have VPN access to a corporate intranet it can be done now cheaper than ever. Here's a link.

http://www.direcway.bz/orderhughesnet.html

Beargrease

no not all homes in alaska are in the middle of nowhere like us.


Well just curiouse, do you guys have to get your signal off of two different satalites? Do you have to manually change over during a certain time of the day?

One dish is for satellite internet, the other for is for DISH tv.......we haven't hooked a tv up to it yet though....

Dave

Radiant heat is the best! Thats pretty sweet a diesel boiler, now all you have to do is brew up some bio-diesel and screw the oil company's! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Yeah got to get out of here, too many people, may be coming out that way soon, i would obviously suppose that you have a septic field for waste? Dude and your better half, are livin the life of riley, God Bless.

I wouldn't call Brother Bill my better half....grin.

Regardless, I'll buy the first beer, when you arrive......

....finally got some of the heads hung up and the trophy room cleaned up. Still got a few mounts that are either hung in other places around the country, or still at the taxidermist. Starting to look okay though.....

Sweet....

Do you both get one end of the room? Or combining?

The whole place is awesome!!

mike

Where's the



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That trophy room is looking awesome. Keep updating us with pictures . . .

Thats realy cool.

Jamie

Wow, that looks great, what else is going in there, poker table, pool table, maybe a wet bar?

A brown bear in the corner would go nice I would think.

Awesome! Place is finally shaping up...grin