Broadband Shuffle

[numberwhun at hotmail.com (Numberwhun *****)]

My coworker also has Starband.  We have been playing with the Sparc machine 
running Solaris 8 from work.  Today we were able to get his website visible 
from the internet.  Starband blocks port 80 so we used a different port.  
Works like a champ.  He likes it and says it is MUCH better than dialup even 
though it is a little pricey.  (About $750 for the equipment then about $60 
a month.).

Jeff Kirkland


>From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org>
>To: discuss at blu.org
>Subject: Re: Broadband Shuffle
>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:57:58 -0500
>
>Unfortunately DSL is very limited to distance to the CO. Additionally, the 
>larger communities will
>get it well before the smaller. Some people can get DSL via ISDN (sucks but 
>better than dialup).
>One competitor is sattelite. Some sattelite systems are 2 way and also 
>support Linux. I know a
>couple of Starband users, and have heard zero complaints. One guy was up 
>the poll PAMing his
>dish the other day, then when we had some snow he was pleased to see that 
>his Internet
>connection stayed up. Sattelite is no panacaeia., but it gives the single 
>cable company in your
>town some competition. It is important to have the sattelite properly 
>installed. Marc Evans has
>Starband in NH. He used the same installer that my friend in Holland, Ma 
>used.
>On 20 Dec 2001 at 15:42, Numberwhun ***** wrote:
>
> >
> > It stinks that some of us really have no choice in the matter.  I live 
>in
> > Plaistow, NH where there is no DSL service, only AT&T Mediaone or
> > ***blech*** dial-up.  I just cannot go back to a d/u connection.  So, I
> > guess we will have to see how there service is.
>Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
>Associate Director
>Boston Linux and Unix user group
>http://www.blu.org
>
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