Neal D. Becker wrote:
I believe you will find that this is a marketing decision. I am speaking strickly for myself on this, not as a representative of Hughes.
My understanding is the software for DirectWay and StarBand has some code to work around response times, and some caching code to speed up browsing.
The systems are useless for real 2 way work, so don't put us a web server, or ftp file to another machine. But, this extra software makes browsing tolarable. It's only written for M$ OSes, Win9x +, and I don't know if it works well with NT either. A proprer way, would have been to write the code for other OSes, but I think it was contracted out to a a windoze shop. I've read that with StarBand you could remover the ethernet->USB converter, and plug it in to a NIC. It worked, but not well. DirectWay is probably the same. Search for "StarBand" and "linux" to read more. DirectWay will have the same issues. -Thomas
