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

[Matthias Weingart <matthias@pentax.boerde.de>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:09:25PM +0200, Mihai Amariutei wrote:
> 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

Hey, good guess :-)
real life data: 5500USD for a  512kbit/s MPEG2 stream (www.planetc.com
used this for a sat newsfeed, but they capitulate recently, because of
the costs)

        Matthias


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