RE: Satellite adsl

["Stephen Jones" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Paul

The Netsystem setup is only 1-way, you need to use a dial-up or isdn
connection for upstream.

Have you got a url for the BT Sat system. I had a quick look at their
site, but all searches led to their std broadband offerings over a
copper pair. What are they charging now for setup and sub?

Thanks

SJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 August 2003 11:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Satellite adsl

I've currently got the BT Sat system but will be getting 2Mb ADSL in a
couple of weeks :-)

The BT system is great for fast d/l (512 Kbps) and I sometimes even get
faster but latency is an issue if you want to do something like
regularly upload to a web site via FTP (painfully slow), vid
conferencing, games etc. My main complaint is the slow upload speeds -
BT claim up to 128 Kbps but don't believe this - they have admitted to
having problems with upstream speeds. On most occasions I get slower
upload than a single ISDN connection (which I regularly have to fall
back to for uploading to my web sites).

BT support has also been pretty useless (I've contacted them probably
20-30 times in all and rarely had a call back).

If you can live with slow upload and the latency issues ALL satellite
systems suffer from, the download speeds are great.

300 Kbps sounds pretty slow to me - I guess they'd have to be pretty
cheap to make it worth it. Is it a 2 way system or does the upstream
link rely on a modem?

Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Jones [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 August 2003 11:15
To: UK-HA group
Subject: [ukha_d] Satellite adsl

I know some of you guys have (or had) BTs' satellite broadband offering
and weren't too impressed. Has anyone looked at any other providers such
as Netsystem? It's advertised as being up to 300kb download, but is
there much a lag before downloads start and what speed would get under
normal usage?

http://www.netsystem.com/eng/howitworks.asp