[oclug] Satellite I.S.P.

[Rosberg, Michael]

Bandwidth over satellite is very expensive when compared to terrestrial
networks. The same can be said for the required customer equipment.

I don't think that satellite based Internet services are intended to
compete in markets that are served by terrestrial broadband Internet
services.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Bradley [mailto:wjb1936 at magma.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:26 PM
To: General Membership Discussion List
Subject: Re: [oclug] Satellite I.S.P.


On March 15, 2005 11:30 am, Stephen Gregory wrote:

There is a provider in our county but they are looking for $90.00 per
month 
for wireless and I think they are wondering why we are not all lining up
to 
take them on. Storm has a similar offer and at the same price.

Bill.

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:40:54AM -0500, William Bradley wrote:
> > At present wireless is not possible without a lot of expensive 
> > installation of a mast so I can see a tower about twenty miles away.
>
> Despite the complications you should go with the wireless option over 
> sattelite. After reading some of the fine print it quickly became 
> obvious that the listed speeds were based on a 4:1 compression ratio. 
> The real speed was less then 128kbit/s IIRC. One reseller was 
> chargeing 80+ a mouth. For that kind of money a mast should be cheaper

> over 2 years, and deliver better speed.
>
> That said 20km is a long way for 2.4GHz.
>
> --
> sg

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