Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Broadband besides DSL or cable

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Well.. satellite is offered everywhere.  StarBand's web site 
> (www.starband.com) says "if you can see the southern sky, you can get 
> StarBand."  It is rather pricey though, and there are latency issues due to 
> the distance involved.  It's fine for web browsing and whatnot, but things 
> like quake are out of the question.  I'd also imagine an interactive 
> console session being rather sluggish.

While I have not tested the home versions I did do some consulting work
for an ISP in Australia for a while and they hooked to the Internet
through satellite as at that time there were no really decent land lines
available. (Not sure if they have them now..) The connection was
reasonably fast and while there was some slight sluggishness it was never
really bad enough to become frustrating for normal console sessions. I'd
agree that it might not work well for Net games though. Of course they
paid something like US$50,000/month for that connection.. not sure how the
home units stack up. If you find out lemme know though. I am wanting to
move to the boonies some where but haven't been able to bring myself to
cut all Net access.

> Normal wireless is supposed to be pretty good, but I don't think it's in 
> Columbia.  I've spoken to network techs at business that have it in St. 
> Louis through WorkNet (www.worknet.com) and they say it's pretty decent.

Depending how far out you are wireless might not be much of an
option. Isn't it usually used for short-range stuff still at this point?

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