brianpublic2(at)starband.
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 Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject: Wild Blue (wasRE: IMAGE SIZE (was:Re: Battery location) |
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I am currently with Starband and HATE them, but I have no other choice
where i live. I sent WildBlue an email asking about switching from
Starband to Wild Blue, and it took them weeks to reply. Their product is
no better than Starband's, and neither is their customer service.
Also, dont be fooled by the "download speeds". As someone who has lived
with Starband for many years, I can tell you it is not what it sems to be.
Yes, technically it is a high speed download, but after you figure in the
latency for the signal to travel tens of thousands of miles, the "seat of
the pants" browsing is SLOWER than dialup.
You click and wait. Then you get a partial burst, then you wait. Then
another partial burst, then wait. Sometimes the page never finishes
loading. If you dont get the page in about 15 seconds, you aren't going
to tget it, and you need to hit refresh. Some sites, ebay in particular
for some unknown reason, require you to hit refresh over and over to get
the page ot load. Sometimes they NEVER finish loading, sometimes it takes
MANY refreshes to get it to come in.
Want peer-to-peer sharing? Forget it. Want VPN? Forget it. Want to
use a router to share the connection? Forget it. Download a lot?
You'll be throttled back if you hit their quotas.
| Quote: | Research "Wild Blue" who is going in partnership with DishNetworks.
Terrestrial Satellite Bandwidth at about $60.00 a month and no more size
reduction to fit 1990 technology. The download speed is amazing.
Uploading large files is a different story.
John Cox
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England
Sent: Fri 7/21/2006 11:00 AM
<ceengland(at)bellsouth.net>
On behalf of all of us who can't get broadband internet service, I'd
like to ask that if you attach photos, please reduce the image size
before sending them. I know that if you have broadband, you might not
realize the problems that large attachments cause the 'rest of us', so I
offer the following:
The last two messages with images attached were almost 2 megabytes each.
Each message took almost 20 minutes to download on my very slow dialup
connection. That meant that my phone line was tied up for almost an hour
to get 2 messages, & no other messages can be received until the huge
attachment completes its download.
Image size can be reduced using many different software packages, and
many free ones are available if you don't want to purchase one. The
easiest to use that I have found (for Windoze) can be downloaded at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Scroll down & look for 'image resizer'.
Download it & install it (you won't see any new icons on your desktop).
When you need to email a photo to one of these lists, first locate the
photo file using whatever file search program you are comfortable with.
Point at the file with the mouse & right click. The popup menu will
offer a new selection: 'resize pictures'. Click on that option & it will
offer several size options. (The smallest is plenty good enough for
email & screen viewing.) Click on the size you desire & the program will
automagically create a reduced-size copy of the image with the word
'small' added to the file name. It will typically be about 1/10 the file
size of the original but will still be high enough resolution to view on
a monitor (& it will all fit on the screen at once).
Lest you think I'm a lone, too-frugal voice crying in the wilderness,
consider that around 1/2 the people who use the internet here in the
grand old USofA cannot get DSL or cable internet. I'd gladly pay for
broadband (I've begged the phone company to supply it for years) but I
cannot get it here, 10 miles from a city & 4.5 miles from a smaller
community that *does* have DSL.
I know that there are those who will tell me to use a web based email
client & delete the big emails before download. Please save the effort;
I've tried them & they are *much* slower than traditional clients & make
the entire email experience torture. Besides, I'd like to see the
photos. I just don't want to tie up my phone line for an hour to see
each picture. 
Thanks for listening & I hope this post will be seen as constructive
suggestion rather that just another complaint.
Charlie
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