"Kerry Hoskin" wrote in message
...
I've seen broadband via SKY demoed at an IT event I attended last year
(I'm
an IT Manager) its very impressive and priced the same as ADSL. The only
trouble is you're limited on your upload speeds to the speed of your modem
33.6 or ISDN if you're using that.

and your phone line is engaged, so add the cost of a second phone line...

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:37:27 -0000, "Tim S Kemp"
wrote:


"Kerry Hoskin" wrote in message
...
I've seen broadband via SKY demoed at an IT event I attended last year
(I'm
an IT Manager) its very impressive and priced the same as ADSL. The only
trouble is you're limited on your upload speeds to the speed of your modem
33.6 or ISDN if you're using that.

and your phone line is engaged, so add the cost of a second phone line...

.... and there's considerable latency on d/l, and AFAIR there's a
ridiculously low monthly bandwidth quota. I suspect that apart from
very remote areas, satellite "broadband" is going to be a non-starter;
BT will (eventually) find ways of enabling ADSL at most of their
exchanges, as local wireless services introduce some real competition
....

Julian


--
Julian Fowler
julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:37:27 -0000, "Tim S Kemp"
wrote:


"Kerry Hoskin" wrote in message
...
I've seen broadband via SKY demoed at an IT event I attended last year
(I'm
an IT Manager) its very impressive and priced the same as ADSL. The only
trouble is you're limited on your upload speeds to the speed of your modem
33.6 or ISDN if you're using that.

and your phone line is engaged, so add the cost of a second phone line...

.... and there's considerable latency on d/l, and AFAIR there's a
ridiculously low monthly bandwidth quota. I suspect that apart from
very remote areas, satellite "broadband" is going to be a non-starter;
BT will (eventually) find ways of enabling ADSL at most of their
exchanges, as local wireless services introduce some real competition
....

Julian


--
Julian Fowler
julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk

In article , Julian Fowler
writes
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:37:27 -0000, "Tim S Kemp"
wrote:


"Kerry Hoskin" wrote in message
...
I've seen broadband via SKY demoed at an IT event I attended last year
(I'm
an IT Manager) its very impressive and priced the same as ADSL. The only
trouble is you're limited on your upload speeds to the speed of your modem
33.6 or ISDN if you're using that.

and your phone line is engaged, so add the cost of a second phone line...

... and there's considerable latency on d/l, and AFAIR there's a
ridiculously low monthly bandwidth quota. I suspect that apart from
very remote areas, satellite "broadband" is going to be a non-starter;
BT will (eventually) find ways of enabling ADSL at most of their
exchanges, as local wireless services introduce some real competition
...

Like they did round here and were let down by government agency funders
after they had committed to spend and mysteriously BT start announcing
revised lower trigger levels etc:-((

Julian



--
Tony Sayer

In article , Julian Fowler
writes
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:37:27 -0000, "Tim S Kemp"
wrote:


"Kerry Hoskin" wrote in message
...
I've seen broadband via SKY demoed at an IT event I attended last year
(I'm
an IT Manager) its very impressive and priced the same as ADSL. The only
trouble is you're limited on your upload speeds to the speed of your modem
33.6 or ISDN if you're using that.

and your phone line is engaged, so add the cost of a second phone line...

... and there's considerable latency on d/l, and AFAIR there's a
ridiculously low monthly bandwidth quota. I suspect that apart from
very remote areas, satellite "broadband" is going to be a non-starter;
BT will (eventually) find ways of enabling ADSL at most of their
exchanges, as local wireless services introduce some real competition
...

Like they did round here and were let down by government agency funders
after they had committed to spend and mysteriously BT start announcing
revised lower trigger levels etc:-((

Julian



--
Tony Sayer

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:23:31 -0000
"Kerry Hoskin" wrote:


I've seen broadband via SKY demoed at an IT event I attended last year (I'm
an IT Manager) its very impressive and priced the same as ADSL.

priced the same? since when?

--
Spyros lair: http://www.mnementh.co.uk/ |||| Maintainer: arm26 linux

Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are tasty and good with ketchup.

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:23:31 -0000
"Kerry Hoskin" wrote:


I've seen broadband via SKY demoed at an IT event I attended last year (I'm
an IT Manager) its very impressive and priced the same as ADSL.

priced the same? since when?

--
Spyros lair: http://www.mnementh.co.uk/ |||| Maintainer: arm26 linux

Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are tasty and good with ketchup.

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 19:55:15 +0000
Julian Fowler wrote:

and there's considerable latency on d/l

no great surprise - the backchannel is slow, and the satellite is a decent fraction of the way to the moon ;-)

--
Spyros lair: http://www.mnementh.co.uk/ |||| Maintainer: arm26 linux

Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are tasty and good with ketchup.

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 19:55:15 +0000
Julian Fowler wrote:

and there's considerable latency on d/l

no great surprise - the backchannel is slow, and the satellite is a decent fraction of the way to the moon ;-)

--
Spyros lair: http://www.mnementh.co.uk/ |||| Maintainer: arm26 linux

Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are tasty and good with ketchup.

I wish I could remember the name of the company, the show was in Exeter back
in the autumn. Prices for 256, 512 and 1mb were on par with ADSL. The
system uses your existing Sky dish but you do need a dual lnb.

Kerry

"Ian Molton" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:23:31 -0000
"Kerry Hoskin" wrote:


I've seen broadband via SKY demoed at an IT event I attended last year
(I'm
an IT Manager) its very impressive and priced the same as ADSL.

priced the same? since when?

--
Spyros lair: http://www.mnementh.co.uk/ |||| Maintainer: arm26 linux

Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are tasty and good with
ketchup.