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 340525 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:06:35 -0400 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLTsd-000Iud-G1 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:05:59 -0400 Received: from heru-ur.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.53]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLTsd-0009Do-8q for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:05:59 -0400 Received: from [192.168.244.2] (vsat-148-63-140-148.c189.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.63.140.148]) by heru-ur.email.starband.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8806AJG000303 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:06:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4500B3DE.6080503@rollanet.org> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:05:50 -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 heru-ur X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > On 09/07/06 02:24 pm, Dunhill Satellite Systems thus 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) >> >> 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 >> >> > > This is all *great* wireless info, Arjan. Thanks again for sharing it. > My exprience with Direcway has been rather lousy, though th > 7000-series hardware is much easier to use than the old proxy software > on the Wintendo box solution. Is that the same 7000 series you were saying DirecPC uses? Thanks, Sam Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/