From: Jerry Walsh (jerry at domain aardvark.ie)
Date: Tue 29 May 2001 - 10:21:17 IST
It may also be worth knowing DirecPC are also in Europe:
I'm not sure if it's two way over on this side of the world
or not thou, AFAIK there's also an Irish distributer somewhere
in Dublin...
Still i'd take ADSL over it, even if it is Satellite.
Cheers,
Jerry.
At 10:13 29/05/01 +0100, Sean Edwards wrote:
>Currently, there are at least 14 satellite ISP's in the USA. The leader,
>DirecPC, started offering their 2 way satellite service (no land line
>required) last autumn. Bill Gates has even got into the two-way satellite
>market, offering a pilot service on the American West Coast, but I do not
>know the name of this company.
>
>I would like to think Sky Digital offers two-way satellite access ISP, but
>it appears the real challenge is getting them to admit the service even
>exists.
>
>-=Sean Edwards=-
>sedwards at domain integrated-training.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bscanlan at domain irish-times.com [mailto:bscanlan at domain irish-times.com]
>Sent: 28 May 2001 20:37
>To: ilug at domain linux.ie
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re: ADSL Connection bandwidth Tests
>
>
>On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:26:18PM +0100, Ruairi Newman wrote:
> > Okay, now to the real reason I mailed the list: I recently got Sky
>Digital
> > installed, and was asked by the guy installing it if I would consider
>paying
> > for an always on internet connection from Sky, and how much I would pay.
> > If they do go ahead with this, they'd have the jump on every ISP in the
> > country.
> >
> > The guy couldn't tell me whether or not they had any actual plans to do
> > this. Has anyone else heard anything? There's nothing on their website.
>
>Satellite ISPs use land lines for outgoing TCP traffic and the relatively
>high latency digital feed from the satellite for all your incoming traffic.
>
>Which is good for downloading large files and all, but not exactly a real
>always on high speed internet connection - AFAIK it'll be always on, but
>you'll still need to dial in over land lines to use it, and that's charged
>at your normal ISP phone rates.
>
>Brian.
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