anybody have experience with this outfit?

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:

> 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.

Satellite is definitely not the way of the future for Internet. The 
latency issue is its Achilles heel and it is an insoluble problem (well, 
unless someone finds a way to do it with LEO satellites).

BoP has way too much controversy with regards to the interference issue. 
  I keep hoping it will work out, but the chances appear slim.

I think the the future of broadband is some kind of fixed wireless. 
WiMax perhaps. It is essentially as good as dsl/cable and with few of 
the problems of satellite

Michael