On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Terry Collins wrote:
> > Satnet is out there, and it works -
>
> I hope they run it better than their WWW pages
> http://www.satnet.com.au -> http://www.ihug.com.au/ulta which karks it
> this morning. It took multiple goes yesterday to locate and download the
> Ihug Satellite pages (basically 300hrsfor $60/month and only capital
> cities).
I _believe_ it's supposed to be a seperate feed for the satellite stuff -
I could, of course, be wrong.
Out in the sticks, see if you can get onto Chello Broadband - I went for a
job with them, and their concept is great - not satellite, but HF radio,
and bi-directional. If they're around, it could be worth looking at.
> > it's only mono-directional, though {I.E. download only, the upload still
> > goes through a phone line}.
>
> Most are. The other stuff is big $$$ from what I know and I would
> probably have to move (too many trees).
You could always cut them down. :)
> > If you want something from NA you're going to be shit out of luck. The LEO
> > {low earth orbit} satellites used for this kind of internet link stuff
> > don't have the footprint to cover Aus _and_ the US. Geosync satellites do,
> > but the latency through them is _terrible_.
>
> I wanted something that uplinked out of USA as over 50% of the Internet
> is regularly unavailable at times. I suspect there are some very bad WWW
> configs in OZ somewhere. Now even Telstra is stalling out. I went to
> check some (02) telephone numbers for call costs and the WWW pages
> stalled out. Stupid WWW design really - having to troll through four
> pages to get results and 99% of the data was god awful graphics.
Ew. Dream on, mate. Not for no $60 a month, anyway. You're talking
bi-directional, high bandwidth, low latency satellite feed direct from the
USA?
Wanna buy a bridge instead? :-)
DaZZa
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