[NCLUG] Re: satellite ISP

[Joseph McDonald]

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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