From: "Sam Lewis" Received: from mxout2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.166] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTP id 1019234 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:30:29 -0400 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HULUk-000NAJ-Bj for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:30:16 -0400 Received: from apophis.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.50]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HUKYf-000Pbl-7O for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:30:13 -0400 Received: from [192.168.244.2] (vsat-148-63-66-160.c002.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.63.66.160]) (authenticated bits=0) by apophis.email.starband.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l2MBTvRR030276 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:30:04 -0500 Message-ID: <460276CD.3000309@rollanet.org> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:30:05 -0600 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 Internet Access 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 apophis X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 148.78.247.50 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Al Heath wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:41:39 -0500, Sam Lewis wrote: > > >>This subject comes up from time to time. > >> > >>I am using Starband right now.... I don't want to spend > >>the money on new Satellite setup just to end up in a worse position if I > >>can help it. > >> > >>If anyone has information or opinions I would like to hear them. > >>Sam > > >I see commercials on local TV all the time for HughesNet > >[http://www.hughesnet.com]. I have no idea if it is good, bad or > >indifferent. > >Carl > > When visiting my sister's house, I use her Hughes Net satellite > connection as other than dialup, that is her only choice for > connectivity. One thing to consider is the latency on satellite > connections. From what I recall, pings to yahoo.com were in the 2000 > msec range versus the 10 to 15 msec range I get here at home with my > cable connection. But, once the satellite filled the pipe with a block > of data, it came down about like a low end DSL connection. What really > impacted me was telnet sessions to remote hosts ... due to the latency > between keystrokes. As you typed ahead, the echos would burst back in > bunches as packet contents were accumulated. But web surfing and email > was fairly acceptable. > > Al H > As I said I've been using Starband Satellite for 6 years now so I am very well acquainted with the high latency. Wild Blue seems like a really good deal and was wondering if anyone had experience with them or had a better solution for home use. Thanks, Sam Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/