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Date:  Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:38:42 -0500
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From:  Sam Lewis <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] OT satelite broadband

To answer your question, No! :(

However I have been using Starband for about 4 years now.  I have one 
Win2K box that host's the satellite modem via an ethernet connection and 
has a second NIC for my internal network.  I use Winproxy 5.x for the 
firewall, gateway, virus scanner and DHCP server.  My Windoze, OS/2-eCS 
and Linux clients and servers all work just fine.

Now I think you should probably be more concerned with performance.  So 
you need to consider what it is you want the internet access for.

If your only going to do web browsing then you may want to go with 
dialup.  With Satellite your internet traffic makes four 22,000 mile 
trips.  So you have a really high ping time, in the range of 800ms to 
over 2000ms.  So dialup can seem faster for just web browsing.

If you do allot of downloading as I do then it makes sense.  Out in the 
boonies where I live I would probably get 24k to 26.4k dialup speed 
which would give me 2.4k to 3k characters per second.  With Satellite I 
get 30k to about100k characters per second.  So downloads are pretty 
good.  When I had a cable modem my connection maxed out at about 150k.

Now Andy, I'm pretty sure that you are going to be doing allot of 
uploads.  Well that's the really bad part about satellite.  My upload 
speeds is comparable to a 33.6k dialup.  Starband does have more 
expensive modems and service that will get you faster upload speeds but 
they are pricey.

My basic service is $54.99 a month and my modem was $599 four years ago.

All satellite services use special compression software to get fast 
downloads and that software only supports Win2K and XP.  Maybe NT but 
Winproxy discontinued NT support so I had to go with Win2K since I 
already had the licenses.

Check out www.starband.com and .net

Hope this helps,
Sam




Andy Willis wrote:

> I know this is not specific to wireless but I am moving, most likely 
> to where I can't get cable or dsl, and am looking at satellite as an 
> option.  Is there any that will work with OS/2?
> Andy
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