sat modems? what is it
Lilazzkicker
modems
dreamed of) but he started telling me about a sat modem n i dont know wether he
was pulling my leg or not
how would one set one up?
what would it take?
AlexD
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They exist all right - I remember Evesham Micros in the UK were setting
satellite PC systems a year ago (I nearly bought one). Modem cost £200,
installed in a standard PC. You needed to take out an annual subscription to
a specialist ISP, who had their own share of a satellite. I think the annual
ISP subscription was another £300. For this you got a 256k internet
connection via satellite. You also had to buy a satellite dish and get it
installed - extra cost. You also needed a normal 56k telephone modem - you
upstream link to the ISP was via the phone, and they beamed back to you via
satellite. So you would have to pay phone bills too. I thought the overall
cost was very reasonable considering the download speed. However, Evesham
put the deal on hold because of performance problems - they wouldn't sell it
unless they could guarantee their customers would get the speeds they were
expecting (Evesham are quite a good company): the problem being of course
that it is only the local loop that is speeded up by the satellite link to
you - you can only download at the speed of the slowest link in the whole
internet chain.
I haven't checked recently to see if this situation has been improved. (I
think I remember reading somewhere that ISDN doesn't suffer from this
problem - but surely that would only work if both ends of the chain had an
ISDN link?)
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AlexD
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Lilazzkicker
WELL THANKS FOR THE INFO
Coyote
satellite would have to be *at least* geosynchronous, if not geostationary
(i.e. orbiting above the equator at all times, if not orbiting specifically
above Britain at all times) in order to receive or send signals consistently
at all -- i doubt that any isp would be willing/able to pay the prices
demanded for time on even geosynchronous sats -- it's incredibly expensive;
geostationary satellites even more so.
"Splinter" <no...@nce.com> wrote in message
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> In Article <8nqcih$89h$2...@lure.pipex.net>
> AlexD wrote...
>
> I sub'd to this group for a short while, they had quite a few threads on
> sat internet. Have a look through deja if you so desire :)
>
> I was consdering getting a satellite isp, but as you say it's only fast
> in one direction.
>
> --
> Splinter
AlexD
> In Article <_Ylp5.17015$Si1.2...@news20.bellglobal.com>
> Coyote wrote...
>
> > it's unsurprising that such a service would be expensive, since the
> > satellite would have to be *at least* geosynchronous, if not
geostationary
> > (i.e. orbiting above the equator at all times, if not orbiting
specifically
> > above Britain at all times) in order to receive or send signals
consistently
> > at all -- i doubt that any isp would be willing/able to pay the prices
> > demanded for time on even geosynchronous sats -- it's incredibly
expensive;
> > geostationary satellites even more so.
>
> the UKs SKY TV package. The company involved is
>
> http://www.europeonline.com/
>
> Here are some reviews
>
> <http://www.broadband-
> help.com/service_review.asp?id=12&refpage=cm%5Freviews%2Easp>
>
>
yeah, that's the one I was thinking of earlier. I forgot to mention that
included in the satellite internet deal was free satellite TV reception. But
the reviews explain why Evesham Micros never went ahead with the deal -
thanks for these.