Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:34:29 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Cc: chris@senet.com.au, grog@lemis.com, jim@thunder.st0rm.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Satellite link drivers (was Re: backbone connections in Australia) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810021130040.321-100000@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: <199809280702.RAA28040@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > +----[ Andrew McNaughton ]--------------------------------------------- > | > (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. > > They have. > > They charge $550 US per 64/Kb. You can start from as little 64Kb. > Traffic over 1Mb is $500 US per 64Kb I think... > > I'm not sure they offer anything outside of Capital Cities yet so you'd > have to check that. Has anyone looked into drivers to run the satellite dish directly from FreeBSD, or do people use windows boxes for that? Would the need to route outgoing traffic via a different interface from incoming traffic create any major problems for doing this under freebsd? Andrew McNaughton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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