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John Hansen wrote: > I wonder whether it is possible to use the satellite dish > to connect to the internet and if so how? > It would perhaps solve the problem of slow connection speed > in rural areas. > > Who knows about such matters? > John W > > NOT cheap Long delays due the significant round trip time - this can reduce some services to a crawl despite theoretical high bandwidth! There used to be compressed dial up services - wonder if any BB provider could do that too. It WOULD make a large difference to a lot of stuff! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html