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The New In Door Unit (IDU) DW7000
On September 1
st
2005 Direcway announced, and started selling, the replacement for the
DW6000. The new unit is the Direcway DW7000 network termination interface (NTI).
For all intents and purposes the two products are virtually the same. They look the same
from the outside. They behave the same in the residential and commercial local area
network. The biggest difference is in internal clock speed of the DW7000 over the
DW6000. For single PC users not much performance enhancement will be gained. For
users with multiple hosts and any single user doing a large download while others are
browsing; then, upgrading to a DW7000 may be of interest. Also, with the new price
plans a residential user paying $59.99/month can upgrade to a DW7000 and a
professional service without a static IP address for $69.99/month. This pricing structure
may be the most valid reason for an upgrade.
September 1
st
also saw changes in Direcway’s service offerings and pricing structures
based on upload/download speeds. Direcway’s price and throughput plans now mirrors
WildBlue’s pricing structure.
In the remainder of this document if a statement refers to the DW6000 and DW7000 as
being the same then the unit will be referred to as a DWx0000.
DW6000 versus DW7000 comparison:
Up to 45Mbps multicast
streaming, up to 4Mbps FTP,
up to 2Mbps accelerated http,
up to 2Mbps UDP
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