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Broadband Related => Broadband Technology => Topic started by: tickmike on March 20, 2014, 11:35:18 PM

Title: Broadband from a satellite
Post by: tickmike on March 20, 2014, 11:35:18 PM

http://www.inmarsat.com/service-group/broadband/

I was looking at some other services on this satellite and noticed they do Broadband which maybe of interest to someone .

Title: Re: Broadband from a satellite
Post by: burakkucat on March 20, 2014, 11:53:48 PM

Indeed. But at quite a price, no doubt.  ::)

Somehow I cannot see Walter suggesting it to the various Ewhurstians who are still struggling with appalling or non-existent broadband services via the hardware infrastructure of the Evil Empire of 81 Newgate Street.¹

1 The Beattie Bellman Group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group)

Title: Re: Broadband from a satellite
Post by: UncleUB on March 22, 2014, 11:53:33 AM

The biggest hurdle with Satellite BB is the intial cost and setup and usually the monthly GB allowance is quite small.Also D/L speeds can be slower than ADSL.

This list gives you a rough idea of costs etc

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/isp_list/ISP_List_Satellite.php

Title: Re: Broadband from a satellite
Post by: kitz on April 06, 2014, 08:29:04 PM

Thanks for the link,  interesting that the prices equate quite well to the price of a 512kb adsl connection appx 10yrs ago.   

some of us may remember paying £29.99 for 512k plus £150 activation at the exchange, plus a minimum of £100 for a router.
  Some ISPs offered the cheaper USB "frogs" which allowed one pc to connect, having gone for a router myself can't recall how much the frogs were, possibly £30/40?