[NCLUG] Re: satellite ISP

[Dan Fink]

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