From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (2996 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:27:21 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id PAA27109; Tue Nov 21 15:27:13 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA00946 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:28:17 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001121152910.007dfb50@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:29:10 -0600 Subject: Re: broadband access with starband, usb, and linux In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: The reason cable or dsl won't work, is I'm too far away from the CO for dsl, and cable isn't available unless I were 5 or 6 miles away from where I am now. It'd cost more to have lines run than it's worth. I'm not fond of the streaming audio taking a long time to buffer, I'd rather have it come in right away, as timeout might even happen. I've not yet figured out in windows or linux to get an effective transition between music on my system and streaming audio, as the music fades out before the streaming stuff starts. At 10:10 AM 11/21/00 -0600, you wrote: >A couple observations: > >1. You will need to have a driver for your equipment in either case. If >the driver isn't out there, then get to coding. > >2. Most satalite systems experiance a high latency connection though they >have high bandwidth as well. This can cause some confusion on the quality >of the conncection. For instance the echo of typed messages over telnet >might by long. When starting streamed media it may take a long time to >buffer and if the player suypports it will fall to low bandwidth >settings. Then after the stream becomes established the data will always >be there and again if supported the player will attempt to move to a >higher speed. If you are running Microslop, you will want to patch the >system to deal with the high latency. Linux deals quite well and will >realize the high bandwidth. M$ as shipped will assume a low bandwidth >connection. > >3. One of our members has been dreaming of his broadband connection and >asking questions on how he might get it for some time. I doubt he is >getting this one either. The stated cost is not significantly less then >cable or DSL. Given that we have not heard why these haven't been >implimented, I think this is just one more theoretical discussion which >won't go anywhere. > >======= >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >