What's This About, The internet and the road Options

[trkrhelp]

I the internet as it's the reason I can fulltime and still keep my business going. I'm one of those who's been doing this for years, at first just weeks away, but I gradualally got the office trained and now can just disappear for months - this year the entire summer and now even though I'm back near the office I only go in 2 or 3 days a week most weeks. In the beginning - 6 or 7 years ago getting online could be a problem as many of the places we stayed were in the boonies and an air card wouldn't work. So I decided to go with a satellite dish and got a datastorm installed. TA-DA internet every where, but no longer able to park in the trees - but the cell companies kept putting up the towers and now I have the best of all worlds - Verizon air card when the trees are near and the Sat the rest of the time. The air card also offers another advantage - when we're driving for the day and I need to check something no more putting the sat up - just pop in the air card and there's the internet.

I've seen lots of folks out there with "computer" in ther profiles so I thought it might be interesting to have a spot to talk shop, share tips, even network a little when we're looking for work or maybe someone to do something for us.

I'm a VBer - 99% VB6 still, haven't made the transition to .net and don't know if I'm going to. I own a small company that writes software for truckers - from drivers to small fleets. Currently we're in the process of bringing the program to the web (my part of the WE is supervising they're over my head in this new web stuff ).

How about you - what do you do, how do you stay connected, etc. I think it'll be fun to have a place to talk shop with other who share the freedom of the road and still keep the keyboard buzzing

[bthomforde]

Satellite Internet allows us to work from anyplace I want as long as there's not a tree in the way.
We've got a Datastorm F2 and use iDirect, I have a VOIP phone system, and no it's not vonage or simular, it's a business grade system, my sales people also use the VOIP system and we can conference, page extensions, transfer calls put people on hold and they get the company hold message. nobody knows I'm not in a sticks and bricks office.

[trkrhelp]

Ok, I'm impressed - I have a F1 and a HN7000s modem and I can't get voip with it even on a clear day with a great shot at the sat. I'm just not getting the bandwidth to give me a good voip connection. I 've tried it a couple times and it breaks up too much. I can do voip over my air card, but I think that would run the bill up real fast

iDirect - I'll have to check them out, do you know if it's the bigger dish that makes the difference or whether it's the provider? I'm with Motosat and they get their service through Hughes.

[bthomforde]

I used to have an F1 with Hughes, I now have an F2 with iDirect, the main difference that I see with iDirect is latency, not the amount so much as the high and lows or jitter. VOIP can work with high latency but its the range swings that kill it.

If you run a rolling ping you can see the the range of latency, thats what kills VOIP.

[trkrhelp]

Thanks for the info. From what I understand that F2 upgrade is both arms and half a leg, so with the economy in the tank for the moment it'll have to wait on sunnier times, but I do appreciate the info and I will look into some more. Maybe I can get a deal on a F2 from someone who needs to get rid of theirs I'll keep my ears open.

[NormaCleflyCarob...]

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[WilliamensurnFew]

And another one bites the dust - but your garbage post was different at least -