Satillite

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat May 04, 2002 6:55 pm

Gentlemen, I'm looking for intormation on Satillite internet connection. DSL and Cable are no where near my area yet, and I'm tired of downloading stuff at ~4-5k/sec. I want to move into the 21st century with a broadband connection, and I would like to look at satillite. Anyone have any info or links, and your thoughts on satillite as an alternative. Thanks,
Charlie

marscheese · Post by **marscheese** » Sat May 04, 2002 10:05 pm

from what i've heard, sattelite it only like twice as fast as a 56 K, but it would be faster. don't know about pricing or anything.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sat May 04, 2002 10:19 pm

we almost got satellite for our office

it was the system currently being sold by radio shack

i was told it is actually excess/new bandwidth on a business WAN

it is as fast as dsl - the only prblem is the lag because you have the bounce off the sat

a contract it guy who worked for the office had it and said it was basically 512/128 - but that sometimes it wold slow then burst and really wasn't good for first person gamers - the system we were looking at was about $500-1k up from and about $85/mo including isp, etc.

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Wed May 08, 2002 12:00 pm

if you plan on play online games, heed this warning... satellite connections have high latency
this means you'll have a pretty crappy time playing your games

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Wed May 08, 2002 12:50 pm

at least they removed the requirement of a dial-up connection for uploads.