From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Sep 27 23:07:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07228 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (pppk-04.igrin.co.nz [202.49.245.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07181 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:06:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA04662; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:04:18 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:04:17 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: Chris Foote cc: Greg Lehey , Jim Mock , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backbone connections in Australia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Chris Foote wrote: > Probably your best bet is a satellite connection with your own dish > at Wagga Wagga (big links to Sydney would cost big bucks from where > you are located). > > We have a 4Mbit satellite link, quite affordable at just over 1 million > per year; see: > > Panamsat: http://www.panamsat.com/ > AAP Sat Tel: +61 02 9692 1089 > > (You would need a small terrestrial link for outbound traffic as well). > > IMHO, I'll have latency over packet loss any day - international > traffic is so much nicer :-) 1 million dollars? Ihug offers sattelite dishes to home users in new zealand with a similar arrangement re phonel ine for outgoing data. They charge $600 setup + $79 per month for a 400Kbit link. Your setup is ten times the bandwidth for 1000 times the price. Latency is reportedly about 0.1 second. I believe they're moving into the Australian market. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message