anybody know anything about using satellites as oppose to cable lines or telephone lines for dealing with online transactions.

reason for asking is that the telehone lines for the pharmacy i'm opening up is all messed up and cox/bellsouth are taking their time fixing it. I want to open up as soon as I can, but without regular phone lines I can't do online transactions for pharmacy claims. I'm just wondering if satellite can be as effective in doing this type of job??

 

are you looking into getting internet by dish?

 

I think that downloading with Satellite internet is fast but uploading is about as fast as dial-up. :hsdunno:

 

that what i was going to say... unless a new technology came out, usually with satelite you actually need a phone line to upload data. download from satelite but upload is done by a seperate Dialup connection.

 

so the verdict is, it is not feasible?

I got katrina to thank for all this bs

I don't want to have it set-up where sometimes it is working good and sometimes it goes down. I'll lose a lot of customer if that was the case.

 

Coax cable compagnies?

Wireless EVDO connection?

 

i know here in TN, the lottery uses hughes directway for all lottery transactions....2-way satellite & no phone line required i think

http://www.hughesnetbiz.com/

 

How about that Sprint broadband card? Could you use a broadband phome company with that???

 

well I called Cox this afternoon and they said they were going to do it...so thanks for the info guys. If they bail out again, I shall do some more researching.

 

I had satellite internet before DSL became available. At first you could only download with the satellite and upload with a dialup but somewhere around 2002 they started offering 2 way satellite downloads. It was much better but no where near the speed and quality of DSL/Cable plus it's expensive too boot.