Skyway Works Great For Me

[Dgenx321]

Try this one.


Speakeasy - Speed Test

[retiredTech]

Ok Speakeasy results:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 571 kbps (71.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 72 kbps (9 KB/sec transfer rate)

[Jared Twomey]

I just installed SkywayUSA. I had only dail-up @ 24k. Here are the test results from testmynet
Your connection is: 5159 Kbps or 5.2 Mbps
You downloaded at: 630 kB/s
You are running: 90 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 1.63 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:1982887322295
Test Time:: 2008/01/08 - 12:52pm
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FDM)
Test ID: SHYPZROL5 (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 838 % faster than the average for host (ses-americom.net)
This was tested from a 5983 kB file and took 9.5 seconds to complete

ha.... yeah, thats a little off. Your real speeds actually look ok though. I was considering selling Skyway and I think I may be sold finally. Speeds seem pretty good from most experiences i've heard

[Dgenx321]

Ok Speakeasy results:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 571 kbps (71.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 72 kbps (9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Thats your real speed.

[Stargazer]

I was thinking about selling it a few years ago but they did not have local dialup in the area and by the time you had to use your own dialup service plus pay for theirs it made the service that much more expensive. Good dialup can be had for $10 now plus they give you what - about a $5 discount if you use your own ISP? The good thing about it is that it is a lot simpler to setup and cheaper startup than with the two-way systems. It would probably have better ping through dialup than it would through satellite as well. I have done gotten into the wireless internet business but it would be a nice filler for areas that cannot get my wireless service. It would be nice if I could use something like this to share broadband access in areas that I cannot get a link from my towers to or not enough customers in an area to afford the cost to make the link then later make a link if enough customers in an area signs up.

[lumpkin666]

Stargazer, in your area, what's the biggest obstacle to getting wireless to your customers? Ours still seems to be trees, as we don't have tall buildings or many hills/mountains here. If they ever come out with technology that will reliably transmit through wet leafy trees, that would be awesome.

We are working on GEO data systems that allow us to know if a customer can get a link to a tower without going to his location. We can lay out the elevation and project obstructions based on the geographic data we have for our installation areas, but that data still doesn't account for trees, unfortunately. If it weren't for trees, we'd hardly ever have to send anybody out for a sight survey.

[mrt2o]

Good dialup can be had for $10 now plus they give you what - about a $5 discount if you use your own ISP?

Has anyone on here actually got the discount for providing their own dial-up. I have AOL and it will not work with skyways modem. They said that because AOL uses a proprietary dialer, it all sounds like jibberish to the Skyway modem. Never mind the fact that skyways example for the discount, on page ...15 line 6 of the user guide that I have, mentions AOL specifically for people who wish to provide their own dial-up.

Even though I was promised my Skyway service for 24.99 a month with AOL as my dial-up, they could not get it to work and told me I would have to pay the $29.95 if I wanted to go online. No option out!

Do not be confused like I was. Using your own ISP for the dial-up means that your dial-up provider will have to be able to access skyways modem, speak skyways language, and dial skyways number. Every time you go online. Not just when the sat is down! You can imagine what AOL had to say to me about that when Skyway told me to call them for help, that it was an AOL problem.

Just curious if anybody got it to work for them maybe you could explain to me how and save me a little money.

I am however glad that someone is getting good speed on the weekend.

[retiredTech]

I have only had skyway a couple of days. So far it works as expected Except for the evenings(ie 7-10pm). It is much slower in the evenings and often doesn't fully load pages. I'm sure that it is because of the number of users at that time.
mrt2o, if you want to save money, why do you have AOL? Isn't AOL priced higher than many other ISPs?

[Dgenx321]

AOL is a rip off.

[mrt2o]

AOL cost me $12.00 a month and I get a score of stuff that I like with it.

Has anybody got the Skyway discount for providing there own dial-up? I want to know how to do this with aol.