Broadband Shuffle

[bconway at WPI.EDU (Brian J. Conway)]

> 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.).

How is latency?  That's the one complaint I always hear against satellite.
I know a few people with it, one of whom I believe uses Starband, and he
can never get better than 500 ms ping times to anything a hop or two away.
Download speeds are great, though from what I hear, just don't try an ssh
session unless you're patient. =)

-b