anybody have experience with this outfit?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, dep wrote:
> and yes, it is my last choice, too -- i've watched satellite teevee
> during a bad rainstorm and watched it turn into pixellated hell, for a
> start -- but i think it is the only alternative to dialup. it would be
> good if there were some competition in the field, and i guess there
> will be in due course, but for now they seem to be the only game in
> town today. the latency makes sense -- the bird is at 25,000 miles, so
> the speed of light alone guarantees close to a third of a second delay
> (that weirdness we seen on television in interviews with persons
> overseas and by sat phone). the upside -- the lipstick on this pig --
> is that it is certainly bleeding edge, isn't it? something to look back
> on in a few years in much the way that we now look back on setting the
> interleaf on an mfm drive (or hard file, as ibm called it).

I don' know that i'd call this the bleeding edge.  The future of broadband
seems to be BoP (broadband over power lines).  I think this satellite
stuff is a relic of an older age when everything over satellite seemed
like the way to go.

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