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[Benjamin R. Ginter]

Brock,

I've been looking at WildBlue who offers broadband speeds using two-way 
offset paraboloid satellite dishes.  Some forum posts have indicated that 
the latency is still fairly poor, in the 200-250ms range.  I guess the 
satellite is at 22k miles or something for geosynchronous orbit and light 
can only go so fast.

Near Colville, Qwest does offer DSL and another provider offers point to 
point links via microwave with line of sight to their antennas/repeaters. 
I've heard Hughes has a business-class satellite service that some doctors 
are using for critical telepresence applications that would seem to 
require lower delays.

Since 200ms is fairly useless for interactive shells, any other providers 
you or the other readers may be aware of would be of interest to me. 
Otherwise, I might have to start getting creative with passive waveguides 
or smth.  Hell, maybe I should just launch some instrument laden weather 
balloons and start my own ISP!  Who says the glory days are over? :)

Ben

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Brock wrote:

> Neat. If you have offgrid-internet feel free to drop us a line and tell
> us how it's going :)