broadband access with starband, usb, and linux

[Brent Harding]

The reason cable or dsl won't work, is I'm too far away from the CO for
dsl, and cable isn't available unless I were 5 or 6 miles away from where I
am now. It'd cost more to have lines run than it's worth. I'm not fond of
the streaming audio taking a long time to buffer, I'd rather have it come
in right away, as timeout might even happen. I've not yet figured out in
windows or linux to get an effective transition between music on my system
and streaming audio, as the music fades out before the streaming stuff starts.
At 10:10 AM 11/21/00 -0600, you wrote:
>A couple observations:
>
>1.  You will need to have a driver for your equipment in either case. If
>the driver isn't out there, then get to coding.
>
>2.  Most satalite systems experiance a high latency connection though they
>have high bandwidth as well. This can cause some confusion on the quality
>of the conncection. For instance the echo of typed messages over telnet
>might by long. When starting streamed media it may take a long time to
>buffer and if the player suypports it will fall to low bandwidth
>settings. Then after the stream becomes established the data will always
>be there and again if supported the player will attempt to move to a
>higher speed. If you are running Microslop, you will want to patch the
>system to deal with the high latency. Linux deals quite well and will
>realize the high bandwidth. M$ as shipped will assume a low bandwidth
>connection.
>
>3.  One of our members has been dreaming of his broadband connection and
>asking questions on how he might get it for some time. I doubt he is
>getting this one either. The stated cost is not significantly less then
>cable or DSL. Given that we have not heard  why these haven't been
>implimented, I think this is just one more theoretical discussion which
>won't go anywhere.
>
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>Kirk Wood
>Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
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