I used to use WildBlue. Their 'Commercial Package' was about twice the price of the 'home', but it was worth it, in that I got a much larger 'fair share'. My issue was not the speed, but propigation delay (think 1500ms each way! ... comapare to 'surfing' at 28.8 as a top speed)
We went to 'Sprint Wireless' and are getting about the same 'speed' but much lower propigation delay. If your friend can get it, I suggest that over Satellite. I used to use a caching web and DNS proxy using SQUID on an old linux 386 machine back in the day. It worked well and also doubled as a local mail server and web host for 'in home' web pages. My best to your friend. ... Jack On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>wrote: > > I have a friend on Satellite internet (it's that or dialup) and they > have a hard cap on the amount of data you can download and upload via > the system. Does anyone know of a system that we can put in place > which will allow her to monitor and control usage of the internet > connection on a per-computer or per-person basis. I know I could put > something together by dropping a linux box to use as a router in place > and I am seriously considering doing this as it will also allow us to > put in a transparent proxy and caching DNS server to help reduce > bandwidth used. In their first month of usage, they hit the bandwidth > limit and there are penalties for doing it more than once. > > Andy > > > > -- sycamoretechnology.com Practical Solutions for a Practical World --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
