Thanks to Dazza and others who have responded.
DaZZa wrote:
...snip.....
> Satnet is out there, and it works -
I hope they run it better than their WWW pages
http://www.satnet.com.au -> http://www.ihug.com.au/ulta which karks it
this morning. It took multiple goes yesterday to locate and download the
Ihug Satellite pages (basically 300hrsfor $60/month and only capital
cities).
> their Linux drivers are pretty good -
That is good to know.
> it's only mono-directional, though {I.E. download only, the upload still
> goes through a phone line}.
Most are. The other stuff is big $$$ from what I know and I would
probably have to move (too many trees).
>
> I haven't seen anyone with a bi-directional satellite link yet.
>
> If you want something from NA you're going to be shit out of luck. The LEO
> {low earth orbit} satellites used for this kind of internet link stuff
> don't have the footprint to cover Aus _and_ the US. Geosync satellites do,
> but the latency through them is _terrible_.
I wanted something that uplinked out of USA as over 50% of the Internet
is regularly unavailable at times. I suspect there are some very bad WWW
configs in OZ somewhere. Now even Telstra is stalling out. I went to
check some (02) telephone numbers for call costs and the WWW pages
stalled out. Stupid WWW design really - having to troll through four
pages to get results and 99% of the data was god awful graphics.
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