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they looked into wireless, cabel, dsl, dialup, and satalite....they are an hours drive out of town so no wireless or cabel yet...dsl will roll out next year for them in their area, they only have 14.4bps connection on dialup and satalite seems like the best option for now....his dad works for direct tv so they get a discount
Tell your friend to rewire his house... That is probably why he gets such slow dial up. He might be able to get 30 or so if he rewires. If they do the rewiring themselves it should only cost about $100... Maybe less... That would certainly be cheaper than paying for dish for a few months compared to paying for dial up.
its not the house its the wireing out their...and they called the phone company and they only guarintie 14.4...the house is only 10 years old......trust me....satalite is his only option for year...then the phone company will be updating the lines to carry dsl....aparently the lines date back to the 50's or something
Security on SAT is pretty good. Most of that stuff is C-Band or L-Band, though some are in the K, X, or even Ka bands ( http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/spectrum.html ). Other than the L-Band, it would require a pricey and hard to find microwave receiver. Not impossible but in the difficult category, and a little too expensive for your average WAR-*-er.
On top of that is the DSP (Digital signal processor) needed to break out the bits, an understanding of the encoding protocol to make sense out of it, Polorization of the radio signal, directivity of a dish transmitting antenna to overcome, and finally the multiplexing technique used on the RF transmission.
Takes special equipment, training, money and a will to overcome all of these things. Not the same as your average guy runnung net stumbler from his laptop while riding the METRO through downtown DC.
And that is if the signal is not encrypted which is possible.
Hope this helps
holy $h17.....that be a complicated system.....yes that does help alot thank you
hehe. I thought you were faking a speach impedement
"how secure is dish internet"
Dish encryption hasn't been broken. Well assuming it's the same mechanism as the television part.
i suck at grammer...failed it 2 years running :)....did really good in math tho