As Marc Evans posted, Starband went downhill to the point where he disconnected them. One of Starband's issues is that those who used both Starband for Internet and Dish Networks for TV paid their bills to Dish. At some point, Dish failed to transfer these funds to Starband. This whole thing started in the February time frame. At issue is Echostar's (Dish's parent) bid to acquire DirecPC. If the merger goes through, then Echostar would be the only Satellite TV provider, and with DirecPC, they would effectively put Starband out of business.
My friend who lives in Holland, Ma is still very happy with the service, but he is a Windows user. The bottom line is that if you want Satellite Internet you are stuck with a Windows based system at the present time. Also, at the time I first learned about Starband, it was the only 2-way satellite service. I believe that DirecPC is now 2-way. On 5 Jun 2002 at 19:58, Benjamin Scott wrote: > Also, many of the satellite companies are not Linux friendly. I know one > of our customers was recently told to switch their gateway from Linux to > Windows, or lose their feed. They use Starband, FWIW. -- 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. *****************************************************************
