We live in an area without DSL or (until recently) cable internet access. We purchased the Direcway satellite service and satellite tv at the same time. They charged us twice to come out and install the systems serperately, even though it should have only had one dish installed. Never recouped that ...
Just a word to other people looking for high speed internet. Direcway does offer you a high speed internet connection and it is fast... That's the good news. Bad news is that you can't use it but a little bit, 169 mbs in 4 hours to be exact. Something they don't mention in all of their pretty high ...
Send a letter to the FCC at fccinfo@fcc. Gov The letter I sent on 5/5/04 reads: I have been caught in a service nightmare. Direcway advertises High Speed Internet Access - they deliver slow access and often NO ACCESS. When the access fails the consumer is expected to spend hours, sometimes days on ...
The Direcway system did not work as advertised from day one. The installer made several mistakes that had to be corrected by an outside source at our expense. I was never able to drill down through a wed-site without errors. I was no longer able to access my Hotmail account or MSN Messenger. Slow ...
Less than 4 months ago we purchased a Direcway Satellite system for our computer. We live in a rural area where Cable and DSL and not provided yet. We watched the Demo on their parent companys Satellite "DirecTV" and it was amazing how fast it worked on the infomercial. However once ...
As all the others have reported, this is a huge ripoff. My service worked for 1 week (and not much faster than my dial-up). However, after 1 week, I could no longer get on. Multiple phone calls over the next week and a half and a visit by my installer and still no service. Since I was still within ...