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In alt.games.diablo Gumby <gumbyjd@eastlink.spammersmustdie.ca> wrote:
: 
: ArtDent wrote:
:> When you are in the Join / Create screen, there are advertisements that
:> appear at the top of the screen and one of them is for Direct-TV offering a
:> free year of WoW play with sign-up.
:> Err....  isn't it almost impossible to play WoW over a satellite hook-up
:> because of the inherent lag?
:> Is this just another case of the corporate 'suits' that don't know what the
:> heck they are doing?
: 
: They're not a 'Net company and you're not getting 'Net access when you 
: sign up with them - just television.  Unless something's changed 
: recently and it's not reflected in their Web site, anyways.
: 

Not correct.  

DirectTV has a high speed internet package.  
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/discover/broadbandBundle.jsp

In the past you would download highspeed content from the dish with fairly
brutal latency and have a dial up connection for uploads.  It appears
now that they combine that with DSL packages.  I suspect they still use
the dish for downloads, however I am not sure.

-dave