Re: [OT] Satellite
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numero = 61455
interpreted = N
texte = RichC wrote: > Ran Starband for 2 or 3 years ... although a couple of years ago. > Expensive but with excellent download speeds. Upload is/was slow and the > real negative is the 'round trip' (even as light speed) delay. The > company gets around this by sending larger packet sizes to you. The > systems are great at sending larger chunks at one time. I recall > clicking and waiting and then 'zoom' everything from a page is there at > once. Really what you are doing is communicating with the 'Hub' that is > connected to the net. Your request bounced from your dish to the 'bird' > then down to the 'Hub.' It requests the information you wanted and then > collects it at the 'hub' and bounces it back to space and back to your > dish. Its a long trip even for electrons. : ) .... but it works. > > Rich Interesting insight. I suppose the travel from your dish to the satalite to the hub is a given static time that is hard to improve on. Starband is claiming upload speeds of up to 128Kbps on the "telecomunicator" package. However, Starband says no webserving where I don't see that restriction on the two Direcway options. The direcway lists Upload as up to 100 Kbps and has a "Max no. of connections" of 30 and 45 depending on which package you use. (I suppose that means simoltanious connections) For a home office project webserver I'm sure this would be just fine. It may also be fine for small to mid scale commerce servers that are not heavily trafficed, but Satellite in general (at this point) doesn't look to be an ideal means of web serving from what I can tell. Donovan -- =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o DONOVAN D. BROOKE Eucalyptus Design <-Web Development (specializing in eCommerce), -> <- Graphic Design, Custom Tags and Labels -> ADDRESS:> Donovan Brooke DBA Eucalyptus Design N2862 Summerville Park Rd. Lodi, WI 53555 PH:> 1.608.592.3567 Web:> http://www.euca.us =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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RichC wrote: > Ran Starband for 2 or 3 years ... although a couple of years ago. > Expensive but with excellent download speeds. Upload is/was slow and the > real negative is the 'round trip' (even as light speed) delay. The > company gets around this by sending larger packet sizes to you. The > systems are great at sending larger chunks at one time. I recall > clicking and waiting and then 'zoom' everything from a page is there at > once. Really what you are doing is communicating with the 'Hub' that is > connected to the net. Your request bounced from your dish to the 'bird' > then down to the 'Hub.' It requests the information you wanted and then > collects it at the 'hub' and bounces it back to space and back to your > dish. Its a long trip even for electrons. : ) .... but it works. > > Rich Interesting insight. I suppose the travel from your dish to the satalite to the hub is a given static time that is hard to improve on. Starband is claiming upload speeds of up to 128Kbps on the "telecomunicator" package. However, Starband says no webserving where I don't see that restriction on the two Direcway options. The direcway lists Upload as up to 100 Kbps and has a "Max no. of connections" of 30 and 45 depending on which package you use. (I suppose that means simoltanious connections) For a home office project webserver I'm sure this would be just fine. It may also be fine for small to mid scale commerce servers that are not heavily trafficed, but Satellite in general (at this point) doesn't look to be an ideal means of web serving from what I can tell. Donovan -- =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o DONOVAN D. BROOKE Eucalyptus Design <-Web Development (specializing in eCommerce), -> <- Graphic Design, Custom Tags and Labels -> ADDRESS:> Donovan Brooke DBA Eucalyptus Design N2862 Summerville Park Rd. Lodi, WI 53555 PH:> 1.608.592.3567 Web:> http://www.euca.us =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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