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

["Igor Izyumin Jr." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tuesday 01 May 2001 01:50, you wrote:
> > 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.
In ukraine (Sevastopol) where i'm from, the internet access is mostly 
provided by satellite, it is slow and expensive.  About 2c a minute.  VERY 
expensive for people that live there.  The connection sucks, too.  However, 
the only other alternative is for all isps in that city to run over a phone 
line/56K link to Kiev.  Talk about slow - it's like the freaking dark ages 
there.
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-- Igor
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