lesopp
join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL | reply to MyDogHsFleas
Re: Must be law
VPN over satellite broadband is no better than over dial-up. |
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JakCrow
join:2001-12-06
Palo Alto, CA | Heavy UDP traffic, like VPN, kills sat internet connections. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | When you've got a 280MB monthly cap that, if broken, results in your connection being throttled back to 14kbps...everything kills satellite Internet connections. |
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MyDogHsFleas
Premium
join:2007-08-15
Austin, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Southwest
| said by Karl Bode  :When you've got a 280MB monthly cap that, if broken, results in your connection being throttled back to 14kbps... everything kills satellite Internet connections. That's exactly correct. My co-worker I was referring to got some kind of "professional" level subscription that did not have the caps. Pretty much required if you're going to be a heavy user. |
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Drywall
@comcast.net
| And I'm sure the monthly cost for this satellite service is competitive with Cable/DSL prices.... not.
Cable and DSL are fungible; satellite simply isn't. It's not competitive from a cost/performance standpoint. The only people using satellite are people who can't get cable or DSL. Thus, it's not really a legitimate option for switching should a consumer wish to penalize their ISP for being non-neutral.
Having 2-3 firms to choose from isn't really competition, it's oligopoly. Or have you forgotten your Econ 101 lessons on the four basic types of markets? |
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