On 3 May 2006 at 13:27, Jim Dykes wrote: > > You didn't clarify what you don't like about Direcway -- I have it > > and absolutely love it. It is reliable, fast, and you get used to > > the propagation delays [even for interactive ssh stuff]. I consistently > > get download speeds well in excess of the promised "up to" limit, and > > the FAP is hardly a problem [you need to tune your expectations, of > > course: I won't try to download a 600 meg ISO image]. > > It's just slow. Perhaps my settings aren't correct, but the folks at DW > were the ones who gave me the settings.
I guess I that's subjective -- for me, the satellite performs *exactly* as I would have guessed [better actually]. > By going to some of the sites who propose to give you your connect > speeds, the readings are quite satisfactory.....however in reality it is all > slow. I know it isn't DSL, but it takes far too long to go from one web > page to another. Ah, so that makes it likely that the answer to your question is "NO satellite service is going to satisfy you". Keep in mind the 1/4 sec time to go up and back [and so you get a minimal 1/2sec round-trip time EVERY time your computer needs to talk to something on the "other side"] and that protocols are not, in general, optimized for minimizing interactions, and you can get some annoying delays [e.g., a paranoid email client can be a real hassle: a round trip to check the next message #. A round trip to retrieve the message, then a round trip to delete it from the mailbox. Rinse, repeat. Annoying, but if you understand what's happening, you realize that it is unavoidable. Same with the web: I see VERY few "unexpected" delays in surfing around. Sites that do HTTP/1.1 and so will allow multiple requests to be piggy backed on a single HTTP connection come up quite quickly. Sites that don't [or that have graphics, ads, beacons, etc, from other sites all over the place] load a LOT more slowly [because it takes a _bunch_ of interactions to open and close a TCP connection] > Based on how it works, I wouldn't go with DirecWay if I knew then > what I know now as to the speed of accessing web pages. And I think that that will go for *ANY* satillite-based service. Unless you can find one that manages to finesse the laws of physics [and so can make a 44,000 mile round trip in a lot less than 1/4 second] you're going to see the same basic "feel" for any service. Hughesnet, nee direcway, uses a fairly fancy web proxy [which it is possible that you haven't configured properly] precisely to sidestep some of these problems, so I doubt any other service will find a way to do better for what you want to do. Sorry... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
