[lug] Linux and Satellite Internet Access?

[David Morris]

The "problem" with satellite internet and linux is that all the
satellite modems require windows.  I have yet to find a satellite
modem equivalent to the Cisco 675 DSL router.

True, the lag time is annoying....but in some places that is the only
choice.

--David

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Trever C. Trader wrote:

> I dont' see why there would be any problems.  Satellite internet like
> anything else uses a standard IP stack for it's communication.
>
> The only problem that I have with Satellite Internet is the fact that it's
> half-duplex with about a 600ms lag time up and down.
>
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, David Morris wrote:
>
> > I was just wondering what options are available for connecting a LINUX
> > box to the internet via satellite?  Within the next 6 months or so, I
> > might well be moving up to the mountains, and it is likely that
> > neither DSL, nor Cable will be available for high speed
> > access.
> >
> > As of a year ago (my last inquiry on the subject) the answer was that
> > nothing really worked all that well with Linux, if at all.  Has that
> > changed, or is it likely to change in the next few months?
> >
> > --David
> >
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