[NCLUG] Re: satellite ISP
Joseph McDonald
joem at uu.net
Thu Mar 6 21:45:37 MST 2003
What are the latency times and what are the monthly costs?
Thanks!
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:53:50PM -0700, Dan Fink wrote:
> I also cannot get CWX up here west of ft collins, and I've used starband
> for 2 years now. It works great, though I have to use a laptop running
> windows as a proxy server to the Starband gateway so I can use Linux on
> my main machine. Speeds are OK -- very fast bursts up and down,
> DSL-speed downloads, and almost ISDN speed uploads. Reliability has been
> good. Starband did go chapter 11 last June, but I have heard nothing on
> this since, and service has been getting even better. The other option
> is DirecWay, don't know anything about them. Someone from this list did
> email me the last time this question was asked -- and said he found info
> on Linux drivers for Direcway. Not sure about this. Starband does not
> support Linux, but the proxy server solution has worked fine for me.
> Cheers
> DANF
>
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