On Saturday 12 March 2011 13:11:25 Ian W. Wright wrote: > One option in the Uk is internet via a sattelite link - the > same sattelites that provide sattelite TV I think. The > service costs are little more that normal 'phone line DSL.. > Doesn't anything similar exist in the US?? > Ian
it does but its horribly slow because of the latency issues here's what I got using Hughes satellite service bash-3.1$ ping google.com PING google.com (74.125.227.17) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 74.125.227.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=1707 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.227.17: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=1317 ms if a page has any scripting or needs multiple requests it can take minutes to load and they have a daily download limit of around 400Mb ,as soon as you go over it they throttle you back to around 1200 baud for the next 24hrs ,not just till midnight but a full 24hrs from the time you went over the limit as soon as the contract is up I'm going to something else Brian -- Nemo Me Impune Lacessit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
