Gee, whom you gonna trust, someone who's been in the industry for
many years or a mega-corp?
Last I checked, airtime for most Geostationary brids was around $50/hour for
56k uplinks and SatPhone rates were
like $4.00/minute.
What changed? Nothing!
They aren't being 100% truthful with you. a)most connsumers are incapable of
setting up and maintaining microwave uplinks, b) most satellites are 70%
downlink, 5% up, 20% reserve and 5% maintenance.
kg7fu
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, November 09, 2000 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: Linux and Satellite service
>Darren,
>
>After reading Cory and Dock's responses you may be wondering if you are
>the one who is crazy.
>
>Fear not. As you can plainly see from the /. discussion and its linked
>article, there is nothing impossible about affordable satellite
>uplinking. It's available right now, of course, from starband.com and
>Hughes, Teledesic, Wildblue and DirecPC will have their systems up and
>running shortly.
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39949,00.html
>
>-Chris
