[linux-dvb] Re: Sat-Internet Provider Choice

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Thomas Keil wrote:
...
> The only two for Germany atm are Europe Online (EON) and Bertelsmann (?
> correct me if I'm wrong), but they're both overloaded beyond hope.

I looked into EON over a year ago and even back then it was the same
thing: Sometimes download speeds were below ISDN. A pure waste of time.


> Only thing is to wait for the 2nd quartal of 2002 when the Telekom
> starts it's "DSL via Satellite" Service.
> Currently the company I'm working at is participating in the pilot
> projects, and it's REALLY NICE.

I agree that German Telekom's "DSL via Satellite" currently provides
good download rates. They appear to have implemented a few good ideas.
For example, it seems like they give you a high bandwidth for the first
few blocks of a file, which will in part make up for the poor response
times of a satellite link. 

On the downside,

*  There is no Linux support.
   Have you managed to get it running under Linux?

*  The price is very high.
   You have to pay for ISDN (which is laready more expensive
   than cable-based DSL) AND you have to pay extra for the
   "DSL via Satellite" service.

*  The bandwidth is limited.
   I believe that one transponder provides 8 Mbit/s?
   How many transponders will they rent for how many people?
   During the pilot phase with a very small number of active
   users, this seems to work well, but will they be able and
   willing to increase the number of transponders appropriately
   when they get more users?
   As we see, EOL failed to do so.



> Max download I had was 120KB/sec. The system needs a working ISDN
> connection for upstream, downstream ist picked up from the satellite
> stream as a proxy service for http, ftp and any other socks-supporting
> application.
> 
> Cheers
> Thomas



Cheers,

Carsten.


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