I recently had one heck of a time with thee satelite service from the company direcpc. Here is the deal, satelite service is expensive not only for the service but for the installation and the parts ie modem/dish. In my neck of the woods in Massachusetts they offer deals with the cable internet or dsl where if you have a contract everything is free. The satelites problem was the speed is not throughout. When you are surfing webpages it is just as fast as the 56k but when you download something such as a file the "turbo internet kicks in" which is much faster then DSL. I would still go with DSL or Cable access because the satelite industry is just starting to improve. Just now did they start with a 2 way satelite dish, before you had to connect with a phoneline as well. The technology is slow and expensive. My 54.3 cents If you dont have DSL in your area check if you have cable or ISDN service nearby. Cheers Robert --- "Susan S. Hays" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Could someone please tell me which is faster and > more reliable, DSL or > Satelite? DSL is not yet available in my area, but > Satelite is. I live in > the country, if that makes any difference. My phone > line is currently > connecting at 28,800 and I have a 56K modem. I was > connecting much faster > until I added a second phoneline. I have called the > phone company several > times and of course, they say that nothing is wrong > with my line. So I've > given up on that. Sure could use some input because > I know nothing about DSL > or Satelite. > > Thank you, > Susan Hays > > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just > change to > Digest mode - visit our web > site: > http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com