McKrassler

hopefully your right.  Ive had direcway less than 48 hours and im already tempted to make the dish into my new outdoor shit house.  If I try downloading anything over 20Mb, it will start fast, then slow down to a grueling pace and time out around 17-22mb completed.

yea, but ive only had direcway for a little over 2 days now.  My big issue has been with spikes in the connection.  It will be going at a semi decent speed (roughly 70-80 kb/s) then drop down to around 2-3 kb/s.  I got ahold of the district manager of Direct TV (couldnt get through to direcway) and he said that if it is working and installed correctly, I should be able to anihilate the local Charter cable modems.  Im doing good now to break 56k.  Looks like im stuck though, my areas phone lines dont support a faster connection than 28.8k, the cable company has been trying to sell for the last 11 years, so they havent offered any sort of cable modems, and no DSL support.  I either have to settle for Direcway or 28.8k dialup.  By the way, I live in the mountains of West Virginia, and am secluded from any major city, so we get shafted when it comes to technological services.