Satellite broadband Anyone? Im lookin into this... seems simple enough... apart from having to drill another hole through my wall to get a cable to the dish the new plenexis service uses the 28.5 D East Eurobird satellite (same as a number of sky channels, so ya can use ur sky dish to get access) I just wanna know opinions... if anoyone has any knowledge or experience in this... let me know... i dont actually have a dish (bit of a setback i know ) but i figured if it's worthwhile...
wrong. its cheap as chips.... upload speed isnt an issue if all u want is to get stuff down nice n quick..which i assume spud wants... u can get 2 way satellite if you need speed BOTh ways but thats BIG BIG money
One thing tho mate - it is a PAIN IN THE ARSE!!!!!!!!!! I used to use Europe Online when I couldnt get normal broadband. Plus points: Scheduled downloads arrive at speeds of OVER 1 MEGABYTE a second most of the time... You can get 3rd party tools (File Fetch Manager was one of em) so people can set anything they request to be shared - then the program lists everything thats sitting on the proxy servers and when its due for delivery - you can pick and choose...a LOT of stuff to be had Negative Points: You have to schedule stuff to be delivered normal downloading thru their proxies is (was) shocking - altho still at times faster than a 56k.... There are restrictions on where u can request files from (as in only port 21 FTP's) etc. All in all - if you cant get broadband tho - go for it - if you aint arsed about messing about and constantly tinkering with it. You can get awesome results if you put a bit of time into it.
when i was a lad (lol) there was only EOL (Europe Online) that we could use - it was shit hot to start with - you could download realtime at like over 500k/sec..............then the service went to pot and u ad to schedule downloads....not as good but they delivered them at stupidly fast speeds! not sure what sorta ppl are offering it nowadays - www.isprevew.co.uk maybe worth a look!
http://www.europeonline.com/en/ordering/index.shtml *EDIT* altho looks like they limit what u can download now - needs more reading up to check!!!!!!!
1gb per month - RIDICULOUS!!!!!! 56k modem can be raped for a couple of days n grab about a gig... think used to take me about 3 days solid to grab 2cd vcd's.........then a new version wud b out once it finished :argue: lol! aaaaaaahhhh the memories..haha...
im tryin all kinds now... one thing which is good for web browsing - www.onspeed.com... compresses everything... makes a noticable difference to web browsing (although picture quality is reduced) apparently it speeds up broadband web browsing as well, but the effects are less noticable... can get a free 28 day trial, it's making my browsing slightly more bearable, but my downloads are still stupid... i have one download q'ed in shareaza that has been d'l in for a good 2days... and STILL has like 200+ hours left :evil: *sigh*
Dont trust any of this make ya web browsing faster stuff mate - if it worked, then it would become standard part of all ISP's setup to reduce traffic blaaaa............. Think satellite is ya only option - jus find a decent provider which doesnt cap ya....... OR - get EOL and jus use the hacked software which am sure still exists sumwhere!
i could actually see that onspeed becoming more popular... got some good writeups in mags etc... but i want proper broadband
I stand corrected - the thing i meant was tye EON FFM program i used to use - a german guy called "Merlin" wrote it - he made it so you had to login with ya eon detail sbe4 u cud use it..to stop freeloaders.. With this you could PICK what u wanted to get.. There are programs jus to sniff the network tho and grab what other ppl are getting - they have 5 proxies (they did anyway) which u can keep a check of and grab stuff that people HAVENT made private..........most stuff..
