anybody have experience with this outfit?

[Alma J Wetzker]

dep wrote:
> quoth Jerry McBride:
> 
> | Here in New Jersey, the deal without the bullshit is: about $600.00
> | up front for the equipment and installation and $60.00 a month. For
> | that you get 50k uploads and about 500k downloads via sattelite. The
> | downloads are monitored and one you exceed a daily limit of 169Meg,
> | you can be throttled back to almost 50k download also via their fair
> | usage policy... The equipment, regardless what you are told by
> | Hughes, is OS agnostic...
> 
> this is useful to know. i presume it is fundamentally the same, on the 
> user side of things, as a cable modem -- that one can run a router, 
> internet appliance, whatever off of it, and that the setup under linux 
> is fundamentally the same as a cable modem?
> 
You may need to clarify what a download is defined as.  I am thinking it is 
the total bytes sent to your computer from the web in a 24 hour period.  I 
could not find a definitive statement on the web site.  When I try to do 
research for a paper or some such, I can go through 200 MB in a quick hurry 
because of all the images.  If you are willing to use something like lynx, or 
spread research over a few days, you should be fine.

(If I am downloading over HTTP, can the proxy server tell the difference 
between that and a web page?)

     -- Alma

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