[WISPA] Anyone heard of SBC Satellite
A company named Satellite Broadband Connection just approached us re: offering their product as an alternative to otherwise un-serviceable customers. Is anyone currently partnered with them? How is it going? My complaint is that it is asymmetric using dial-up as the upstream. It doesn't seem to me that it would compete well against wild blue/hughes which offers bi-directional connectivity. One good thing is you supposedly own the customer so that you could switch them out to wireless when/if it becomes available. Pricing is not too bad it seems. www.satellitebc.com Any thoughts? __ Patrick Nix, Jr., csweb.net (918) 235-0414 http://www.csweb.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATTENTION: This e-mail may contain information that is confidential in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the sender immediately. Thank you. WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Anyone heard of SBC Satellite
Pat...all consumer satellite internet is asymetrical. Business class, government and broadcast have serious QoS and a small contention ratio over the TDM/TDMA channels they use. Wild Blue/HNS etc use very high contention ratios which results in slow service and they have to charge users who use what they consider to be excess capacity. Transition the customers to a solid LOS radiolink when you can. Stu Browne FCC PG-23-1159 WH6H On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Patrick Nix Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A company named Satellite Broadband Connection just approached us re: offering their product as an alternative to otherwise un-serviceable customers. Is anyone currently partnered with them? How is it going? My complaint is that it is asymmetric using dial-up as the upstream. It doesn't seem to me that it would compete well against wild blue/hughes which offers bi-directional connectivity. One good thing is you supposedly own the customer so that you could switch them out to wireless when/if it becomes available. Pricing is not too bad it seems. www.satellitebc.com Any thoughts? __ Patrick Nix, Jr., csweb.net (918) 235-0414 http://www.csweb.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATTENTION: This e-mail may contain information that is confidential in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the sender immediately. Thank you. WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Anyone heard of SBC Satellite
I did not know anyone was still pushing one way satellite internet. Having them as your customer is interesting and might have value but im hard pressed to see it. Stu, not all sat based internet is two way. http://www.whitehawkmedia.com/Attitude/SatLink.asp On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Stuart Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat...all consumer satellite internet is asymetrical. Business class, government and broadcast have serious QoS and a small contention ratio over the TDM/TDMA channels they use. Wild Blue/HNS etc use very high contention ratios which results in slow service and they have to charge users who use what they consider to be excess capacity. Transition the customers to a solid LOS radiolink when you can. Stu Browne FCC PG-23-1159 WH6H On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Patrick Nix Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A company named Satellite Broadband Connection just approached us re: offering their product as an alternative to otherwise un-serviceable customers. Is anyone currently partnered with them? How is it going? My complaint is that it is asymmetric using dial-up as the upstream. It doesn't seem to me that it would compete well against wild blue/hughes which offers bi-directional connectivity. One good thing is you supposedly own the customer so that you could switch them out to wireless when/if it becomes available. Pricing is not too bad it seems. www.satellitebc.com Any thoughts? __ Patrick Nix, Jr., csweb.net (918) 235-0414 http://www.csweb.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATTENTION: This e-mail may contain information that is confidential in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the sender immediately. Thank you. WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Anyone heard of SBC Satellite
An example of an asymmetrical satellite link would be a 128 kbps uplink with a 2 mbps downlink. One way broadcast satellite internet is simplex with a land line return channel! Did that back in the day into Asia from an uplink in Hawaii. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Jeromie Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not know anyone was still pushing one way satellite internet. Having them as your customer is interesting and might have value but im hard pressed to see it. Stu, not all sat based internet is two way. http://www.whitehawkmedia.com/Attitude/SatLink.asp On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Stuart Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat...all consumer satellite internet is asymetrical. Business class, government and broadcast have serious QoS and a small contention ratio over the TDM/TDMA channels they use. Wild Blue/HNS etc use very high contention ratios which results in slow service and they have to charge users who use what they consider to be excess capacity. Transition the customers to a solid LOS radiolink when you can. Stu Browne FCC PG-23-1159 WH6H On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Patrick Nix Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A company named Satellite Broadband Connection just approached us re: offering their product as an alternative to otherwise un-serviceable customers. Is anyone currently partnered with them? How is it going? My complaint is that it is asymmetric using dial-up as the upstream. It doesn't seem to me that it would compete well against wild blue/hughes which offers bi-directional connectivity. One good thing is you supposedly own the customer so that you could switch them out to wireless when/if it becomes available. Pricing is not too bad it seems. www.satellitebc.com Any thoughts? __ Patrick Nix, Jr., csweb.net (918) 235-0414 http://www.csweb.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATTENTION: This e-mail may contain information that is confidential in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the sender immediately. Thank you. WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
