[rescue] satellite internet service

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:47:06PM -0500, bill pointon wrote:
> hello fellow listerines ( or is that a trademark violation ? ) -- i am 
> afflicted with dial up internet service and old slow phone lines -- if 
> anyone who has a satellite service would care to comment on the current 
> state of their service and costs i would greatly appreciate it as i am 
> shopping but have heard bad things about fair use policies and bandwidth 
> restrictions -- unfortunately i am too rural for dsl or cable yet ---- 

The bad thing about satelite internet is latency.. but if you dont do much
stuff via telnet/ssh to other systems, it should be okay.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX