Satellite internet?

Phonix

I have relatives abroad but unfortunately they live in a rural location so only have the option of dialip. The line rental for the phone makes this an expensive option, at least £15/month.

Do you know a cheap way to get the internet by satellite? I heard there were services offered but suffered from alot of lag and poor upload speeds.

Anything is acceptable really as long as it doesn't cost above £150 a year.

Thank you

quoia

Phonix wrote:

I have relatives abroad but unfortunately they live in a rural location ...............

erm.... France? Latvia? Iraq? Afghanistan? Austrailia? North Pole? South Pole? Outer Mongolia ?


HOWEVER, In many cases the upload speeds are as fast as the equipment on the telephone line can handle the transfer. With the cheaper (and sometimes the only sort available) type of satellite internet you only download over the sat link - you don't transmit back up to the satellite that's 24,000 miles away in a geo-stationary orbit over the equator - you use a phone line.

As for costing only £150 or less a year ?

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I looked into this for someone in the UK about a year ago and it was £150 A MONTH !

andy88_2

There was a similar thread recently for someone in Spain - you could do a search.

I replied along the lines that quoia says. Most satellite broadband will only use the satellite for downlink. You'd need a much more powerful ground station to transmit to the satellite.

I think the poster of the other thread said their location was so remote there were no phonelines at all. If you've got phone coverage you'll use it for the uplink so you can't avoid the line rental. It will then be a question of whether to spend on the satellite link. Instead take a look at Onspeed, which can improve apparent dialup speed by compression techniques.

pennypincher_2

AVC provide a satellite broadband service for as little as £9.99 on the 256k service (£99.00 for the kit though),does anyone have any experience of this?

greyster

ISDN? The latency is almost as fast as ADSL/cable and you can get dual channel ISDN to achieve 128k speed. (Single channel is 64k, only slightly faster than dialup). You can still not a big difference on single channel i.e. takes half a second to connect and you actually achieve 64k unlike dialup which is impossible to achieve 56k.

This needs a BT telephone line and an engineer will probably call.

greyster

penny/pincher wrote:

AVC provide a satellite broadband service for as little as £9.99 on the 256k service (£99.00 for the kit though),does anyone have any experience of this?

As previous posters said, its likely to be one way satellite which offers fast b/w but slow latency. This is fine for most things except VOIP and online gaming.

The upload link will be dialup speed and horrid so no good if you need to do lots of uploading. For general surfing, this is probably a good deal for your requirements.

If this is not suitable, I'd go with ISDN aka middleband, as opposed to narrowband 56k and broadband. This is what people (mostly businesses) had when they wanted fast connections before ADSL rolled out.

ackers

I live in the UK but am too far from my local exchange to currently support ADSL, so have opted for a one-way satellite offering from skyDSL.

The upload link goes via your dial-up ISP (I've just switched to Martin's cheapest) and downloads, webpages etc are received by the satellite dish.

skyDSL is certainly reasonably priced (basic package is around £5 per month plus 1p per MB of data downloaded, dish and PCI card £20 the lot, free connection and first months charge). Download speeds vary, but typical is c.400 which I am delighted with as my dial-up rarely exceeds 30! :eek:

Tech support is only by email and is direct from Germany and is not great, but with that proviso, I would recommend it if there is no alternative.

I am not sure what the satellite's footprint is, but check out the website https://www.teles-skydsl.co.uk for full info.

android_2

would i be able to use this say on holiday for 2 weeks