jerry ely wrote:
Due to the 'speed-of-light' thing, the culprit for the performance issue is TCP/IP. I had the privelage of speaking with an IBM genius in networking and he provided an easy explanation. TCP/IP uses 'sliding window' for flowcontrol. The window size can be up to 64k and varies depending on
With this in mind, the 'custom software' mentioned could easily be an IPv6 tunnel or similar. Since linux has IPv6 software in its collection, maybe using this would releive some of the perfoemance concerns experienced b y2 way sattelite communications....IMHO
I think it's more like the accelerator software sold for modem use. Mostly caching, possibly some compression. That's for incomming traffic. Outgoing is worse, since you have to wait for a transmit slot. Then you send a burst of data. Again, for browsing, it's not to bad, but for other work it's too much delay. http://www.starbandusers.com/performance.htm has some good info, I'm sure DirectWay is using the same type of software. The genberal info is that neither StarBand nor DirectWay is usable with non-Windoze. StarBand dropped their support of the 180 box, and the new 360 doesn't have an ethernet jack. -Thomas
