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

["Mihai Amariutei" <mihai@ambra.ro>]

The sad reality is that is no such thing as cheap fast Internet via
Satellite, simply because sats are much too expensive.
Do the math yourself:
1 sat costs about 800 millions USD
It can be used for about 6 years
It carry a couple of dozens transponders, capable of say 40 Mbps each.

It works out for a bandwith price of about 3000 USD/Mbps/month, about ten
times higher than fiber prices.
A provider using a 40 Mbps transponder charging 30 USD a month will need
5000 customers just to break even. Not many of the 5000 customers will realy
get broadband.

Mihai


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carsten Koch" <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>
To: "Thomas Keil" <tk@commedia-group.com>
Cc: "linux-dvb" <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:44 PM
Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: Sat-Internet Provider Choice


> 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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