It seems than at Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:40:15 -0400, Mitch wrote: > Allan Streib wrote: > > > > I don't think you can get internet from the sattelite companies, or if > > you can I think it requires you to use your phone for the upload side. > > Unless that's changed since I last heard anything about it... > > There is one-way sattelite such as you describe, and there is two-way. > Two way costs more, and you MUST have it professionally installed, it's > illegal for you to set up a sat transmitter in your own yard. Either > way, you get weather outages and speed of light time delays. The time > delay doesn't really matter unless you are playing action games or > trading the financial markets.
The time delay - called latency - is a factor even if all you do is normal browsing. Because each page causes many request/reply actions, the extra latency can really slow stuff down. My good friend just got DSL in his area and so he signed up for that instead of the 2-way satellite he had been using. He told me the satellite was only a little faster than dialup for heavy request/reply activity, as so DSL is _way_ faster. But when downloading a CD iso image, the DSL is noticeably slower. -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
