What satellite were you using, generally? The motorized mount actually is more accurate than a human - it beat out Hughes' engineers in tests, I'm told.
--Richard
On 2003.06.29 23:53 Horst Herb wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:38, Richard Schilling wrote: > I just got back from training and am now a certified Hughes satellite > dish installer for both mobile and fixed satellite systems available > through groundcontrol.com. The system provides Internet and VOIP > access to the Internet at roughly DSL speeds.
Oops. AFAIK, Hughes system is reknown for its unstability and outages - I myself suffered this system for a whole year before I finally gave up. "DSL speeds" is only true for large downloads - the time lag (at least 2 * 350 ms for most transactions) makes it useless for real time VPN systems (we tried hard to make it work, but it feels like web browsing rather than
interacting with client software when you have to bounce your signal form a satellite).
Last, but not least - Hughes is partially owned by our old enemy M$ (?) - I suppose this is the reason why their two way satellite system still is a Windows only closed shop, with the driver software (at least as available here in Australia) hairisingly unstable - we have a numebr of accounts here where stable systems crashed several times daily reproducibly just by using their drivers.
Furthermore, of all the practices in my area (rural inland Australia) which installed the Hughes system (subsidised via a government grant) have ceased using it and mostly cancelled their contracts becasue of the mentioned
reasons (time lags, unreliable, unstable driver software, proprietary protocol between interfaces, windows only).
Horst
