Re: [APML] Back again

[Gene Horr <genehorr@texas.net>]

Greg Mueller wrote:
> 
> Wow you can upload to a satellite?

Yes, but....in active use we have had very mixed results.  I have
to provide service to multi-user locations in rural areas where T-1
would be horrendously expensive.

Satellite wound up being just too much of a PITA.  Yes, there were
times when it would work faster than dialup.  In particular when
downloading a single large file.  But the latency was a big issue,
especially when multiple users were active at the same time.  Forget
even trying any interactive applications (Citrix/Term Serv, online
games, etc.)

We wound up going with plain old ISDN.  It is the slowest of the
"broadband" links, dated, and often slightly more expensive, but it
is comparable to the ST-4.  It just plain works.

Gene Horr
genehorr@texas.net

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