Just wondering if anybody has had any experiance with satellite broadband?
I <snigger> want </snigger> a two-way satellite connection, but have only found offerings by telstra at the moment (http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/satellite/2wayPricing.asp). The price is pretty steep and I am unable to get cable or ADSL broadband services out here in regional australia (Forster). I have a group of friends that would like broadband as well and are interested in going into a co-op type group for our access using 802.11b to distribute the bandwidth. Because the access is so high on a two-way satellite I was wondering if I also got a one-way sat (http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/satellite/pricing.asp, http://www.nobbys.net.au/meteor/plans.htm) Like the Meteor Leo, that has a 2 Mbps download speed, if i was able to use the two-way for sending requests, and the one-way (without using dialup, because we have shocking phone lines out here) AND the two-way to receive requests, with the one-way being the preference, and the two-way being used as a backup when we fill the one-way? I would also like to keep track of how much traffic each user generates through the gateway (user auth?), but not keep track of local internal traffic. any comments? (or anybody know of any cheeper two-way or one-way?) Regards, Karl "Some pest with high hopes" Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
