Re: ADSL here - anyone want satellite equipment?

["Shaf" <shaf@xxxxxxx>]

Not bad... as expected the ISPs scrimp on upstream and blast us with
downstream...

To equalize the matter my upstream has been staturated constantly 24/7 for
the last 8 months at 200kbps http://proxy.home.shaf.net/grafist/
:)

I'm on blueblunder myself 1024k down / 256k up they recently introduced
2048k down BUT the upstream remained the same do they think I'm stupid or
what ?

Shaf

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:56 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] ADSL here - anyone want satellite equipment?


With the BT satellite system:

Download speeds are very good (best part of the system) - Regularly see 70
KB/s (depending on source of course) - officially rated at 500/512 Kbps. I
also sometimes see d/l speeds in excess of this (150 KB/s) but this may be
due to engineering work etc?

Upload speeds are not particularly good - can vary a lot but average seems
to be 10 - 12 KB/s - officially rated at 128 Kbps max (I think from
memory).

Latency is an issue - so not so good for games / vid conf / serious FTP
work

Overall, it's a good system if you can't get anything else and if you're
looking for good d/l speeds but don't mind about latency issues.

Cost is somewhere around £70 per month IIRC - BT will connect second
hand
kit with a visit to align dish etc.

Paul.


-----Original Message-----
From: Shaf [mailto:shaf@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 August 2003 23:01
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] ADSL here - anyone want satellite equipment?

> > My 2 Mbps ADSL line went live today
>
> /me bites my lip very hard!

/me considers hooking up a WiFi high gain antenna to the rack in the
datacentre, bugger WiFi only gives me 54mbps and the net is slow anyway.

By the way I'd be interesed in knowing whats your upstream ? cost ?

MTIA.
Shaf




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