From: "Sam Lewis" Received: from mxout4.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.168] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 340520 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:03:29 -0400 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLTpT-000Gf3-9h for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:02:43 -0400 Received: from apollo.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.132]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLTpT-0008KC-6d for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:02:43 -0400 Received: from [192.168.244.2] (vsat-148-63-140-148.c189.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.63.140.148]) by apollo.email.starband.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8802T1G021248 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:02:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4500B31C.5040005@rollanet.org> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:02:36 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Satellite providers (Was Hotspots: Play-for-Feevs Play-for-Free) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WinProxy-AntiVirus: Passed X-WinProxy-AntiVirus-Message: Scanned by http://www.Ositis.com/WinProxy X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on apollo X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Dunhill Satellite Systems wrote: >Sam Lewis wrote: > > >>Only one of the hosts he listed actually resolved to an IP address. >>But it's ping time is 40 to 60ms. The shortest ping time I have ever >>gotten on Starband is 670ms. So that host must not be on a >>geosynchronous satellite link. >> >> > >iDirect and Nera (dvb-rcs/linux) have the shortest overall lagtime >between 480 and 520 msec >Unsasat (docsis/vxworks) is between 500 and 550 >Direcway (dvb-rcs/vxworks) between 700 and 2000 (or worse) > > > Do any residential services use these satellites/providers for their service? >we have also 2 SIP voip lines running and the delays are not really >noticeable with iDirect, Nera and UnaSat >don't try such a service with DW or hughesnet, they have a widespread >name, but the qos is terrible, specially in the upload part > > I'm pretty sure Starband monitors their network pretty closely and wouldn't allow that. I can't even do a VPN to work. Yet another reason I'm thinking making a change. Thanks, Sam Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/