Starband filled chapter 11 this week (http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1181181).
My experiences with Starband deteriorated to the point that I have disconnected the service. If anyone wishes to acquire the equipment for Starband, I can provide a "deal" ;-) - Marc On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Another satellite vendor is Starband. Starband is 2-way. A friend of mine > in Holland, Ma loves it. He can't get a local dialup, no cable, no DSL. > Satellite is affected by the weather. My friend PAMs his antenna in the > winter. Marc Evans also has Starband. Marc initially used it with either > Linux or BSD, but he mentioned lately that some of there more recent > patches are Windows. I know several people who have DirecPC and regret it. > > > On 4 Jun 2002 at 17:12, Brian Chabot wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote: > > > > > NH (Dublin, to be precise) > > > > > Alas, I've been unable to find any reasonably-priced high-speed solutions > > > for Dublin. VITTS had offered service out there, but nobody is, now, that > > > I can tell. So, suggestions? Satellite? DSL providers with which I'm > > > unacquainted? Cheap fractional T-1? > > > > I have a friend in Dublin who used satelite. DirectPC I think. It's > > the only way that far in the "sticks". > > -- > Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Associate Director > Boston Linux and Unix user group > http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
