[Cialug] Satellite ISPs

[Neal Daringer]

as an everyday user of satellite internet i will warn you that you
cannot count on it. satellite internet reminds me of the days when the
internet was first becoming commonplace. always dropping off at the
most inappropriate times, slow when it does work, etc, etc. so if you
dont mind that kind of service knock yourself out!

On 4/6/07, david l goodrich <dlg at dsrw.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:10:47PM -0500, Jim Cole wrote:
> > Are they really that bad?  I've never tried it but I work from home and
> VPN
> > into my company..someone in my office had the satellite service for a bit
> > and said VPN worked and it was usable. I've never experiences it.
>
> I interned at a manufacturing company a few summers back and we
> evaluated Verizon's sattellite offering as a backup to the
> redundant fiber links, since the fiber crossed somewhere near
> ames and (of course) a backhoe found it.  "geographically
> separate" my ass.
>
> Anyway.  The latency was terrible, it was barely enough to run
> the factory at an acceptable pace.  We were within tolerances,
> but definitely at the slow end of the scale.  The workers
> complained that network lookups for the barcodes (centrally
> stored at corporate HQ) was 2-3 times slower than usual.
>
> The office workers were disconnected from the network, otherwise
> this would never have worked.
>
> It'll work, sorta, but it won't be pretty.
>   --david
>
>
> >
> > I'm looking to purchase land outside of Nevada, IA(78 acres) for a new
> house
> > but that probably doesn't get DSL or cable. I'm considering trying
> Satellite
> > prior to buying the land to see if it'll work and I'm also considering
> > talking to some ISPs about putting in a WiMax system..I know one ISP is
> > looking into it and it has a 20 mile line of sight range..I need to see if
> > this land will be able to hit the tower they're looking at for this. Yeah,
> I
> > might pay $2000 for the receiver but it's not that much..I looked at
> another
> > house and mediacom wanted $8000 to run a line to the house..800 feet from
> > the nearest pole with cable on it.
> >
> > -Jim
>
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