Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:43:05 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: nathan@corp.wac.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Satellite Internet. Message-ID: <200012150243.eBF2h5445061@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from <nathan@corp.wac.com> of "Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:47:45 PST." <003001c06639$05827a60$f5c8a8c0@NATHAN>
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nathan@corp.wac.com writes: > To whom it may concern, > > I have been looking into using Satellite Internet with FreeBSD for a while > now. > And I have come up with nothing! Anyone using Satellite Internet + FreeBSD > right > now? > > I'd like to know if it's even possible, and if FreeBSD is even built for it! > I have an > address to 2 different devices that are possible to use for the Satellite > Internet. > > 1) SkyMedia 200D internal card. > (http://www.telemann.com/products/SkyMedia200D.html) > 2) SATBOX external USB device > (http://www.harmonicdata.com/products/satbox.html) > this seems a little more promising since it's USB. Another possibility is http://www.starband.com/index.htm. But last I heard they were very Windows-specific. So much so that the only way in was to purchase a pre-configured eMachines system. Satellite IP has a bit of a problem with latency as even at the speed of light the satellite is a long ways out. StarBand is said to use a caching proxy for http at their earth station in order to ram the "hits" thru their link to you before your computer sends all the ACK's that would normally be expected before proceeding to the next step. This isn't as important in mass data movements as it is in the 10's and 100's of little data movements typical of web browsing. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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