Curt Coulter wrote:
> I previously had StarBand for about 6 years, was a beta tester. I
> recommend staying away from them, bankruptcies etc.
>
> I have wildblue currently, and I have the highest service package, which
> gets me 1.6-1.7 Mbps down, and 256 Kbps up for $80 a month. Thus far, it
> works very well.
>
> Keep in mind that any satellite ISP has a built in 520 ms delay to bounce
> the signal to a geosynch sat and back to earth. If you can get decent
> speed DSL, it's pretty much always going to be better than satellite,
> unless you don't do anything that the latency matters.
Bingo.
The applications we work in are primarily super remote (northern Canada,
rural Mexico, parts of South America, Africa, etc.) where there is no
other viable option. There's also a nice market for satellite services
in the disaster communications/recovery area, which has recently come to
the forefront again.
-Bill
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