On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 16:19, Thom Paine wrote:
> I don't have, nor can I get dway because I'm in Canada. But everyone I
> know has a DTV system.
Sure you can get it in Canada. www.highspeedanywhere.com
Find the Residential High Speed (Two-way Satellite) and note the
Industry Canada fee. Must be
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 depe
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:35:50PM -0400, 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.
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 21:12, Martin Stricker wrote:
>
> You are right, it's microwaves. Microwaves are electromagnetic waves,
> just like visible light, and thus have the same speed as light. The
> electromagnetic waves begin with low frequencies as radio waves, and
> with increasing frequency yo
Thom Paine wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 11:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The biggest problem with DirectWay is the speed of light.
> I thought it was a microwave signal based? And it was spread out such
> as not to fry people, and the dish collected enough signal to make a
> data stream.
tion, maybe
using this would releive some of the perfoemance concerns experienced b y2
way sattelite communicationsIMHO
Jerry
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On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:34, Tom Diehl wrote:
> FWIW I have been told that inside the Directway box is an ethernet to USB
> converter. I have no first hand knowledge of this but the information
> came to me from someone who I trust.
Neat, maybe one could modify this a little to work with Linux an
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
Thom Paine wrote:
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 11:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The biggest problem with DirectWay is the speed of light. The minimum one-way
distance to a geosynchronous satellite is still 23,500 miles, which is about 1/8
light-second. That means the absolute minimum time required for a
Tom Diehl wrote:
On 23 Oct 2002, Thom Paine wrote:
My parents live in North Bay, Ontario. They managed to get a second
phone line strictly for internet. I've been looking at the Bell option
for a while but still decided against it. My mom has never had high
speed, so she really doesn't know wh
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Cochran Robert L (NO) wrote:
> Doesn't Microsoft have a significant investment stake in DirectWay? Or
> DirectTV?
I do not know but I have Direct TV DSL and they support Linux. I have been
very suprised that when I have a problem and tell them that the OS is
Linux that they d
On 23 Oct 2002, Thom Paine wrote:
> My parents live in North Bay, Ontario. They managed to get a second
> phone line strictly for internet. I've been looking at the Bell option
> for a while but still decided against it. My mom has never had high
> speed, so she really doesn't know what she is mis
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Robert L. Cochran wrote:
> Doesn't Microsoft have a significant investment stake in DirectWay? Or
> DirectTV?
Indirectly. I believe Microsoft is a minority shareholder of Hughes Electronics
(parent to DirecTV), but I don't know how large their share is. IIRC, this
in
Title: RE: Direct TV Satellite connections
Doesn't Microsoft have a significant investment stake in DirectWay? Or DirectTV?
Thanks
Robert L. Cochran
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> 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.
Neal,
Undoubtedly. In a perfect world marketeers would work with engineers to make the
right product decisions. In the real world, however, most of the m
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 11:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Thom,
>
> Here in the Lower 48 DirectWay is a pure satellite system, unlike its hybrid
> predecessor which required a land line modem for all outbound traffic.
>
> The biggest problem with DirectWay is the speed of light. The minimum one
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.
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Thom Paine wrote:
> If it is similar to the one Bell offers here in Canada, you get a card
> that plugs into the computer. There is special software that brings the
> card online and reconfigures your browsing. You still need a phone line
> and a dial-up isp. Any outb
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Subject: Re: Direct TV Satellite connections
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 200
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Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: Direct TV Satellite connections
> nope,
>
> it does not work yet with linux.
>
> DirecPC is planning to rele
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 08:51, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Has anyone used this with linux yet? Friend has Direct TV and is getting
> the internet connection associated with it. I will be the one helping to
> get it setup for linux if possible and not sure if it's supported, or how it
> connects to it y
@;redhat.com]On Behalf Of Mike Chambers
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:52 AM
To: RedHat - Psyche
Subject: Direct TV Satellite connections
Has anyone used this with linux yet? Friend has Direct TV and is getting
the internet connection associated with it. I will be the one helping to
get it setup
Has anyone used this with linux yet? Friend has Direct TV and is getting
the internet connection associated with it. I will be the one helping to
get it setup for linux if possible and not sure if it's supported, or how it
connects to it yet until he tells me.
Anyone had luck with this yet or he
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