01-15-2008, 10:15 PM
[quote TheTominator][quote Jem]Being able to rent/buy movies on a whim will be a big plus for him and my mom, since they are at least 40 minutes (round trip) from the nearest video rental store.
They are that far from a video rental place and also have a high bandwidth Internet connection? I'm impressed. I wish I were that lucky.
I'm about 50 min round trip from a video rental place, and technically I do have a high bandwidth connection now, but it is very unreliable.
Tom,
Yeah, they were on dialup for the longest time, then ponied up for DirectPC satellite (which frankly ended up not being much better with the bad latency times), and eventually MetroCast cable came up their road, which is what they are on now.
They've leveraged their cable cost by going with a 3rd party VOIP phone provider (ViaTalk), so cable internet has been a big help for them in many ways.
Hope your internet service improves in the near future!
Cheers,
Jem
They are that far from a video rental place and also have a high bandwidth Internet connection? I'm impressed. I wish I were that lucky.
I'm about 50 min round trip from a video rental place, and technically I do have a high bandwidth connection now, but it is very unreliable.
Tom,
Yeah, they were on dialup for the longest time, then ponied up for DirectPC satellite (which frankly ended up not being much better with the bad latency times), and eventually MetroCast cable came up their road, which is what they are on now.
They've leveraged their cable cost by going with a 3rd party VOIP phone provider (ViaTalk), so cable internet has been a big help for them in many ways.
Hope your internet service improves in the near future!
Cheers,
Jem