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Discussion in 'Community Broadband & Computers' started by Genco, Dec 29, 2003.

  1. stever5

    stever5 New Member

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    Any satelite 2 way is slow, like has been said. I used Starband and dial up both when I had it - Basically for downloading the sat is fine, for browsing it's generally good. For anything interactive (gaming, terminal server / remote desktop, vpn stuff, telnet, ssh, etc.) sat you'll hate - I'd dial up for doing that. Gaming it will be exceptionally bad. Eventually I set up a router and spent a ton of hours making it dial a full time dial up + starband and some ports went one path, others the other path. **WAY** more work than you want to do.

    As was mentioned, the 22,000 miles kills latency. That makes interactive things delayed (1-2 seconds behind) - So in plain english if you are doing something interactive (could be windows via remote desktop / terminal server or linux via telnet / ssh) you may type a letter, 2 seconds later you'll get that letter on the screen. So you'll be FAR ahead of the comptuer when typing. Ditto for screen refreshes being behind, etc. So if you are doing sales and try to look up a customer you may click find, 2 seconds later it prompts asking for the name.. you type it, several seconds later you get it back - and everything just seems overly slow.

    To see the slowdown on a modem just try downloading something large from a site and then doing your interactive work (granted, that's not a good way to do it, but for those non-technical it's the easiest way to reproduce what it will be like).

    However for downloading (service packs, patches, watching streaming video, etc.) the sat will work fine. Many people only use their internet for these kind of things and that is who likes it.

    If cable or dsl is available that will be better - I don't think you'll ever find anyone who disagrees with that.

    Wireless technically speaking is fine, but most wireless providers are start ups, usually one man shops it seems, and aren't spending the money on a connection to anyone so they can't give you decent service. The wireless is also relatively slow from you to the provider, but compared to sat it will be very fast. Most don't have support staff, and you really aren't paying enough for an internet connection for the maint required to troubleshoot problems.

    Satelite however if you do NOT do anything interactive, no vpn, no telnet/ssh, etc. may be a good option - but only a last resort. It WILL go down for bad weather (but it has to be pretty bad if everything is lined up perfect).


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