WOO HOO

[den]

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

Comments

[just2draw.livejournal.com]

Who is supplying you? I can't get ADSL at work, and haven't looked at satellite yet...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Bigpond.

If you can't get ADSL you may be eligable for the HIBIS subsidy to get a satellite connection.

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Outstanding! Does this me that Skype will be do-able?

Congrats!
Mako

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I bloody hope so. If not I will be Very Put Out.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I'll swap you for a pair of hamsters and a well-greased wheel...

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

If you're on the 500MB/month plan, it is going to be a bit tight trying to Skype. The latency could be a problem too.

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

The speed of light delay isn't that bad, is it? Although, it'd be cool to be talking to someonw and actually have SOL delay as a factor in the conversation. Very science fictiony. :)

Loxley

[canisrufus-uk.livejournal.com]

Yay!

A Bat with broadband will be a happy bat indeed, get skype :)

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

A bit of googling suggests that latency on a satellite connection normally runs at ~600ms, compared to ~250ms or less for dial-up, and <50ms for ISDN, cable, ADSL and some wireless technology.

It would depend on if the connection is 2-way satellite, or satellite down/ISDN up. If it is a sat/ISDN combination, he wouldn't have any problems being heard, but would possibly experience minor lag depending on how the downstream is handled.

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

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.