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I too, am a big fan of these, and after using them for ~3 years, I've never once had a problem with it. I'm not only a fan due to the speed, but also the fabulous reduction in business on web pages. No more jumping, bleeping, moving, blinking, neon ads distracting me to death while trying to read an article online. However, I've only used it on my own computers. Has anyone done this throughout their department? I would appreciate some feedback on how that went over -- were there ever complaints about the "file not found" errors, etc.? Have you ever had a user not be able to surf to a needed site? (If you don't know what we're talking about, google "host file block" and read up a bit--it's an admirably simple solution to the problem.) Brian Hoort -----Original Message----- From: Sean O'Malley [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:10 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Rural High Speed Internet Service Providers Not to change the subject, but i did find mapping stuff like: ssl.google-analytics.com pagead.googlesyndication.com www.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1 Gives a considerable speed boost especially with low-bandwidth, low-memory, and slow processor situations. (most ads are big flash files.) I use it with high speed. You do get "missing images" and "file not found" errors on the pages, but you aren't downloading ads, your tracking cookies aren't timing out, and rasterization of the pages is a lot faster. I just use a host list, but a dns server is a lot cooler and simpler way to maintain it acrossed several machines. You can find premade lists on the net. I have always wondered how much the university network bill would drop if everyone on campus used it. On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Lee A Duynslager wrote: > I have a faculty member who would have to pay a considerable amount of money > approx. $2K to have Millenium cable run out to their rural home. > > I was wondering if any of you have any experience with Wild Blue High Speed > Internet Service or know of anybody who does? > > http://www.wildblue.com/ > > > Thank You in Advance, > > Lee Duynslager > -------------------------------------- Sean O'Malley, Information Technologist Michigan State University -------------------------------------