WOO HOO

[den]

I have on a pallet in my back yard a satellite dish and associated hardware for satellite broadband.

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Personal experience (though I'm in the states, with the associated additional distance) says around 780msec, for two-way satellite.

Not all that great for gaming... ;)

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

Fine for just pulling data, but it is a problem if you're trying to do something in realtime.

[http://users.livejournal.com/killjoy_/]

Prezzactly. And there's all sorts of issues with my specific provider... suffice to say that it's not designed to be shared over a network, and you have to jump through some irritating hoops to make it work. And I *still* haven't gotten FTP (for example) to work on any computer but the one directly hooked to the modem.

... but it beats the heck out of dialup.