Andrewza

Right, has anyone had this and is it crap?

Before anyone suggests any alternatives, I live in the middle of nowhere (suffolk), my exchange is not ADSL enabled, I'm probably too far from the exchange anyhow and there's definitely no cable. However, if you have any other alternatives feel free to suggest, cost within reason is not relevant as my company will be paying as I'll primarily be using it to work from home.

Short lead times for installation would be good as well, I alerady found the satellite has 25-30 working days, gotta love BT

Forgot to say I realise it'll probably have crap latency, so I'll be keeping my existing ISDN to play games if it is.

[Edited by Andrewza - 9/24/2002 11:40:48 AM]

boxst

Hello

If you are considering keeping your ISDN anyway, you might want to look at some of the one way services instead: www.satdrive.com is the one that immediately springs to mind but there are lots if you look around.

Steve.

Andrewza

I should mention I do quite a siginificant amount of upstream stuff, for which my ISDN isn't really sufficient. This is also the reason I hadn't really looked at satellite, all the services I had seen were one way and I need somewhat decent upstream.

bioforger

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Read the register article below Not only does it cost an arm n a leg to use their Sat service, but now theyre going to cap it! Oh and ADSL users to! feckin BT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/27240.html

Andrewza

I read that, however, unless someone has a better suggestion it does appear to be my only option.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Ping/latency will be total poo for CS - looked at this too.

Andrewza

I know that, much as I would love for work to pay for broadband that would let me join the vlpb ranks I can't find anything available, so at least getting a connection that will let me work effectively is my next priority.

dsmith

I havent personally seen it in action but I've never been keen. The latency affects other things than just games. e.g. telnet with a high latency can be painful.

The bandwidth is also contested though I'm nt sure of the ratios

I'll do some digging and try to get some real-world latency and contention info.

Deano

Andrewza

Cheers deano, tried asking the people on the end of the number of that site and they were, well, useless. All I dragged out of them was that it was unsuitable for VPN and citrix. My work, for the most part, consists of browsing and SSH (be that ssh or scp).

ChrisB

I've got a bloke in the room next door to me setting up a demo Sat ADSL link. Just waiting for the Tx and Rx boxes to grab the software and I'm back in the training session

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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I know you do Chris

ChrisB

Shush

Lots of nice flashing lights

dsmith

Chris

I'm confused I may have missed a few developments but I was under the impression DSL was a strictly copper technology and satelite ...errr.... isn't.

Deano

[Edited by dsmith - 9/24/2002 1:02:46 PM]

ChrisB

PS. You not mastered quoting yet?

[Edited by ChrisB - 9/24/2002 12:52:03 PM]

dsmith

Quoting I can do. Its the spolling I can't manage

ChrisB

http://www.hns.com/default.asp?Curre...020/dw4020.htm is the product I've just been looking at.

The service plan (choice of speeds) on the demo kit was showing sustained download speeds of 150Kbps getting a SuperDAT from NAI.Com. Pings are as expected... 700ms+ to our co-located boxes in Telehouse.

Andrewza

Yeah, I been hearing 700ms or more other places, think that puts interactive ssh into the 'unusable' category probably, will have to sort myself a IPFW 700ms pipe and try it I guess...