RE: Satellite adsl

["Paul" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

I've currently got the BT Sat system but will be getting 2Mb ADSL in a
couple of weeks :-)



The BT system is great for fast d/l (512 Kbps) and I sometimes even get
faster but latency is an issue if you want to do something like regularly
upload to a web site via FTP (painfully slow), vid conferencing, games etc.
My main complaint is the slow upload speeds - BT claim up to 128 Kbps but
don't believe this - they have admitted to having problems with upstream
speeds. On most occasions I get slower upload than a single ISDN connection
(which I regularly have to fall back to for uploading to my web sites).



BT support has also been pretty useless (I've contacted them probably 20-30
times in all and rarely had a call back).



If you can live with slow upload and the latency issues ALL satellite
systems suffer from, the download speeds are great.



300 Kbps sounds pretty slow to me - I guess they'd have to be pretty cheap
to make it worth it. Is it a 2 way system or does the upstream link rely on
a modem?

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Jones [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 August 2003 11:15
To: UK-HA group
Subject: [ukha_d] Satellite adsl



I know some of you guys have (or had) BTs' satellite broadband offering
and weren't too impressed. Has anyone looked at any other providers such
as Netsystem? It's advertised as being up to 300kb download, but is
there much a lag before downloads start and what speed would get under
normal usage?

http://www.netsystem.com/eng/howitworks.asp

TIA

SJ


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