ScooByer Trade

Hi folks, why can't we have this the same as Germany.We are way behind in technology.We still have satallite dishes for christ sake and internet cables in the ground.IPTV is the next thing now, having tv broadcast through the internet.But probably won't receive signals through the air.

ScooByer Trade

Excuse my ignorance here is a service provider with there own satallite dishes lol

http://www.tariam.co.uk/

Ant

Tooway is huge a company that covers Europe and Africa.

Satellite broadband is ok if you live In the middle of nowhere

But satellite broadband is not as good as you think (terrible latency, cost)

ScooByer Trade

But the technology improving the way it is, it should be better than ground layed cables in the future.

Ant

I'm afraid not the distance from earth to satellite is never going to change latency will always be a problem, have you not heard of 4g that will be the future

ScooByer Trade

I have heard of 4g Ant, it's just that we can't get it around here mate at the mo.

Ant

It's not far away , satellite broadband is useless for a mainstream use of Internet.

urban

iTrader: (1)

I can vouch for that.
We have one particular customer what uses satellite broadband as they're quite literally in the middle of nowhere.
Remote desktop to them is like stepping back in time to the old dialup modem era

john banks

Wimax sounds good. If they stuck one on the top of our local telephone exchange which is only about 2 miles away it would be far better than them trying to resource cabling out to where I live where there are only 2 houses per square km (private water and drainage, no gas, just BT copper and electricity from overheads), hardly a big ROI for the phone company, can't see us getting fibre for years. I might make a private arrangement with someone that gets fibre though to set something up with me.

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

Too much delay on satellite and you would suffer badly on propagation if you used a point to point SHF type system.
Basically the best you can get at the moment is fibre.

Tony

daddyscoob

We live in the sticks and until recently satellite broadband was our only option. £26 a month for half a meg.
Luckily BT have finally got their act together and we can now get 12 meg for the same sort of price.

riiidaa

iTrader: (2)

Because the upstream is via 56k modem isn't it?

Ant

Not with too way it's a transponder too

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

We use WiMax here for a 10Mb/10Mb service. It's superb and I'll get getting the residential version at home too which is 24Mb/10Mb with a 15:1 contention ratio.

urban

iTrader: (1)

Absolutely no idea