Hi,

I'm too far out for DSL and Charted cable doesn't offer internet
access here. What's the HN service like. I haven't seen it run since
the old 1 way systems in the 90's.

Is the upload speed decent? What kind of up/down speeds are you seeing
in real life when uploading/downloading zip/tar.gz files of about 25
MBytes?

How's the reliability?

Should I get the larger antenna?

My normal uses are:

Web Surfing.
Reading a bunch of computer related text newsgroups.
Downloading patches and freebies from Microsoft.
Uploading zip/gzip files of 16 - 25 MB about 5 times a week.
SSH into a server to unzip/untar the file I uploaded.
xfer work units for Docking@Home, Rosetta@Home, Seti@Home.

A typical day would see 25MB to 75 MB total of download+upload.

Occasionally I would like to be able to download something like the
165MB platform sdk from Microsoft or a 220MB VMware image, but that's
too much for dial-up.

My main problem is the upload speed. A 22MB upload takes 3 to 5 hours
on Dialup if nothing else is going on, and I do mean NOTHING else. The
big single file downloads like the 165MB platform SDK are hopeless on
Dial-up.

Thanks,

-- David