RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-06-01 Thread Gene Giannamore
Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access The deal with sat service is, as mentioned, the unavoidable ~700ms delay associated with the bounce to the bird and back... Typically, mechanisms to mask that latency fall in to two categories: -TCP ack suppression: waiting for an ack

RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Erik Goldoff
You could use a portable sat like truckers have for internet access, BUT ... You're NOT gonna like RDP over VSAT. VSAT is high latency, minimum 600ms or more as you have to roundtrip 100,000 miles to see the result of a keypress ( sync satellites are 23,000 to 26,000 miles up in orbit ) I

RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Gene Giannamore
3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access You could use a portable sat like truckers have for internet access, BUT ... You're NOT gonna like RDP over VSAT. VSAT is high latency, minimum 600ms or more as you have to roundtrip 100,000 miles to see

RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Steven M. Caesare
+1. Sat is evil for chatty protocols... which RDP is the epitome of. -sc -- former sat ISP tech weenie as well -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet

RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Erik Goldoff
I left the company ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Gene Giannamore
Satellite for Internet access +1. Sat is evil for chatty protocols... which RDP is the epitome of. -sc -- former sat ISP tech weenie as well -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile

RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access

2009-05-29 Thread Steven M. Caesare
] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Satellite for Internet access What about the VOIP offerings that some sat isps offer? One company offers CIR is $5/per Kbps, so an extra $150 per month for 30Kbps? I wonder if that would work for RDP. Or maybe