Satellite & Linux

[Andrew Mathews]

On Thursday I finally had my broadband satellite installed. It's a 
DW4020 from Skycasters ( http://skycasters.com ) and it works 
beautifully. It's a bit pricey, ($1,800 installed) and there's a 
noticeable delay of 1-2 seconds, but once a data stream is initiated it 
runs very well. I have the 400k down, 128k up package and it's $129 per 
month with a static ip. Knock $10 off for dynamic. It comes with a 4 
port hub that will do NAT if you're dynamic ip'd. I have absolutely zero 
problems running all my boxen behind a single system doing masquerading. 
I was a bit concerned about getting my syslogs to relay, but even that 
was a breeze. Luckily, I didn't have to fund the whole thing, or the 
monthly fees, and it sure beats dialup. Now to set up a FreeS/WAN 
connection to my mirror server.
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Andrew Mathews
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