Sorry for the long delay in this (cleaning out my mailbox a bit).
Does anyone have an estimate how many users a satellite based ISP such
as starband.com can support?
My initial reaction is that since basically the whole country/hemisphere
shares the same band (the distant satellite must reserve some band for its
communication), this can't scale to very many users doing true 2-way data
flow. Satellite TV is broadcast only, so it works well, but internet
service seems would seem to be limited.
Karl
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Marc,
> I just had a friend in Holland, Ma install Starband yesterday, but under
> Windows.
> So far so good.
>
> Marc Evans wrote:
> > Hello -
> >
> > I am looking at the possibility of using starband (http://www.starband.com)
> > for network access for a vacation home I have in the middle of knowhere NH.
> > Has anyone seen/heard/experienced this system? If yes, do you have any
> > knowledge with how it may work with Linux/FreeBSD/non-win32 systems? I see
> > a thread in the Kansas Linux Users Group archive from back in November 2000
> > but there are no conclusions posted.
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