satellite internet
marthter
marthter-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 31 17:24:02 UTC 2011
On 11-01-30 04:24 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> On 11-01-29 16:42 , marthter wrote:
>> Anybody used any satellite internet services? I'm trying to help a
>> friend in cottage country who is stuck on dial up.
> It might be better to look for a local rural wireless broadband.
> Companies like Barrett (or Xplorenet, their brand name) use unlicensed
> 6GHz MW links to cross country, then have local repeaters down to
> line-of-sight antennae at each house. Works quite well.
>
> A bit slower than DSL (800k IIRC; the best I can get on DSL in eastern
> Toronto is 1.5M) but doesn't have the latency issues that satellite can
> have. Only major problem is that, being unlicensed and thus not
> registered on Industry Canada's Spectrum database, a large obstruction
> can inadvertently be built in the way of the microwave link and the ISP
> has to change their infrastructure. Licensed links get priority over
> construction.
>
> Stewart
Hmm, yeah, I had checked a similar one, ViaNet's fixed wireless, but
their nearest location is about 15 km away, and it seems they are only
willing to market it if it is within about 5 km away... probably they
cannot stand by it for reliability and speed beyond that.
Thanks for the pointer to Xplornet, but unfortunately when I put in this
location, roughly 45.9 N, 80.32 W, into their "available service"
checker, it only offers satellite "from 59.99 / month" so that is not
much different than what I found from other satellite outfits.
Thanks for the reply. Anyone else?
Martin
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