On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Thomas Charron wrote:
> Had a friend look at it. Coupla ick things about it :
>
> 1) You need a 10 degree veiw of the horizon. In most cases up here,
> spec in the boonies, trees get in the way of having it at such a low
> angle./.
Mine is set at 32 degrees. I don't believe that there are any birds down
that low (10 degrees).
> 2) *WIN32* only. There are two ways of connecting. One is to use a USB
> based 'Satallite' modem. Another is to have a Satallite interface card. To
> my knowledge, there are no drivers for these that will run correctly under
> Linux. I could be incorrect, but when I searched, I came up empty.
Not true. See my prior post on the topic.
> 3) Decent bandwidth, but from looking at a live system in Mass working,
> it has crap latency.
Yes, latency is an issue, particularly if you are a game player.
- Marc
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