[Cialug] Iowa Telecom and Qwest

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Nathan Stien wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 18:03 -0500, Don Cady wrote:
>> > At least you have cable as an option. A real 'black hole' would be 
>> somewhere
>> > the only option is HughesNet or SkyBlue.
>>
>> Sounds like the kind of place dreams are made of.
> 
> If your dreams come with 5-10 seconds of latency and frequent outages,
> then yeah. :-)
> 
> I'm on HughesNet at a client site right now, and it s u u u u u c k s.
> You don't notice the lag as much when just loading static pages, but
> anything interactive like ajax or ssh is like pulling teeth (at about
> 0.1 millimeters per second).
> 

I think he was referring to the unreachability.  sometimes it's nice to 
be completely off line

(of course, then you return to cell coverage, and you've got 15 voice 
mails :( )

-barry