Re: Connecting 2 Wifi Networks Via Cantenna

On May 1, 11:32 am, Jeff Liebermann <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

..... be prepared for a problem. My guess is that the satellite is either
HughesNet (Direcway) or Wild Blue service. Both have severe
limitations on use called FAP (fair access policy). I know of several
small groups that are sharing a satellite connection. It takes
considerable communal effort and some yelling to make it usable.



The trick here, if it's Hughes is to combine your resources to get a
business-level plan. This actually makes it better to share a
dish. For example, 1 person on the Hughes Home plan gets, supposedly
200 MB a...um, let's say day, at "up to" 700 Kbps and 50 kbps recovery
for $70 a month. Upgrading to the Small-Business plan, for $100 a
month you can have more than double all those numbers for $50 each.

And it's better than that, because to the degree that you don't
overlap in usage, each of you can enjoy the full bandwidth to
yourselves at times. Especially if you coordinate/cooperate. We have
8 people (obviously not power users at all) sharing that $100
account. We may add two more and move to the $200 account, but that's
still cheap !

From my experience, the secret to making Sat internet work is to gang
up and share a bigger account/fatter pipe. It's like the difference
between running one 2" water pipe to your neighborhood to service 20
houses vs running 20 1/2" pipes. Which is more efficient? Which
gives better pressure/flow?

Still won't help for VoIP or VPN no matter what account you have.

Note: FAP for Hughes net is extremely complex and had just changed
this month. Also, they are not disclosing any real numbers. Look to
the sat forum for more info. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.satellite.direcpc/topics?lnk=li&hl=en

Still Hughes is probably the best of the consumer level systems.

Steve

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