What software and online activities might be incompatible with a DiRECWAY connection?
Your satellite connection won’t prevent you from doing the things you like on the Web. However, certain time-sensitive Internet applications (NetMeeting, NetPhone, online games, and any application that connects to a virtual private network) don’t perform their best over a satellite connection. Any signal you send from your computer via satellite has to travel over 44,000 miles to space and back again in order to deliver your information, and because of this, a certain lag occurs in real-time communications that you send to a friend or to an Internet site. (By contrast, Web pages, which you download, will arrive very quickly.) If you use NetMeeting, NetPhone, any application that connects to a virtual private network please contact RemoteWorks for information on our special public/private network offering. If you play online games such as Quake, CounterStrike, Diablo, or EverQuest, please discuss your options with a dealer before you order RemoteWorks powered DiRECWAY. These applicatio
