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Satillite
Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 6:55 pm
by Executioner
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
Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 10:05 pm
by marscheese
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.
Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 10:19 pm
by wvjohn
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.
Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 12:00 pm
by chottoED
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
Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 12:50 pm
by Jim Z
at least they removed the requirement of a dial-up connection for uploads.