[GRLUG] Linux desktop marketshare

[Chase Bolen]

I've had satellite for a couple months.  It's supposed to be 1.5Mbps down,
but I never see even close to that of course.  The best I've gotten was
around 130Kbps with bittorrent.  I'm pretty sure we're being rate-limited
now, though, because I haven't seen above 16K in a month or so.  My
connection drops at least once every couple days (more often if I run
bittorrent), and I have to have the router release and renew the IP to
regain it.  Oh, and the lag is on the order of several seconds, so gaming
would be atrocious.  If Comcast ran their cable another half mile down to
me, or the GR WiMax project ever gets off the ground, I'd switch in a
heartbeat.

(First post btw)

On Dec 12, 2007 8:18 AM, Topher <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:

> >> Anyway, satellite Internet connectivity is available anywhere satellite
> >> TV is.  Not cheap, at about $62 a month, it is now about 1.5Mbps down
> >> and 128 Kbps up.  I suspect there are byte quotas for each day.
> >
> > $62 a month is reasonable, considering a T1 circuit and Ineternet
> > service is typically $500/month.
>
> My sister just signed up for satellite service up north ( I don't know
> which service :( ) and she got the "cheap" version for $80/mo.  They could
> upgrade to 1.5Mb, so I'm guessing cheap is 768k.
>
> Topher
> Manager of Internet Services
> Cornerstone University Radio
>
> ------
> perl -e 'print join "", (map(chr,(shift =~ /\d{3}/g))), "\n"' \
> 105032119105115104032105032107110101119032112101114108
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