DirectWay/Linux?

[Jerry McBride]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:21:58 -0800 Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a DirectWay 
> satellite link (the Hughes box).  The sales support people tell me I 
> gotta use Windoze (ugh, ugh, ugh) and I seem to remember seeing 
> something about an upcoming unix port.
> Is anybody out there using this DirectWay setup, and better yet, are you 
> using linux??

I have a client that uses it... She tells me there's a killer lag between
requesting a page and actually getting. I haven't a clue if it's the speed of
light limit or hardware problems t Huges.

As for a linux client in that setup,  never heard of such a thing. It'd be great
though.

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