Business Class Satellite ISP's ?????

[Danielle]

Anyone know of any business class 2way satellite ISP providers?

Not the Direcway Dishnetwork limited systems.

Looking for a satellite provider with good upload speeds.

Hugs,
Danielle

[$5 submissions]

That's the problem with satellite uplinks. Download is quick but upload is a problem. Since business connections need a good upload speed, it seems satellite is still a ways to go.

[savas]

astra.com

[Slick]

Yeah, I could use a great satellite provider also because I'll be doing a lot of camping this summer and I'm in an area where there's not any real wireless DSL and with Dish Satellite, you need a phone line, so that cuts out those 2 options for me, he he.

[Firehorse]

Originally posted by $5 submissions
That's the problem with satellite uplinks. Download is quick but upload is a problem. Since business connections need a good upload speed, it seems satellite is still a ways to go.

That's why we have steered clear of it so far!

[Slick]

Originally posted by savas
astra.com

Actually the link is http://www.ses-astra.com I just dug it up after that one didn't work. I see that they still require a modem, which I suppose means phone line ?

edited to say that they DO have 2 way satellite communication, that'd be perfect for me. I wonder how much something like that costs, I suppose $200-$300 per month. I guess it'd be worth it though.

[supermack]

I had bought the direcpc sat system when it first came out.

I spent around $200 on the system and some other crap for it, and the fucking thing still sits in my garage unopened.

thought about putting it on ebay until i noticed there going for about $25.

oh well.

[SGS]

If you are looking to upload through satellite you are wasting your time for couple of reasons.

1. Even those with good upload speeds will cap you after 100mb per month unless you make a prior arrangement (i.e. Money changing hands).

2. Upload through a satellite link usually works in small packets so even though you can upload very quickly it does still cause a lot of problems with FTP programs crashing and corruption problems with larger video files for instance that have to be uploaded in 10,000 separate parts rather than as one big 10 + mb file.

We have a 10mbps satellite connection at the office here which is being upgraded to a 40mbps connection in late July / early August. For all surfing, downloading and general day-to-day work it is absolutely brilliant. The latest one we have here has zero latency and 100% reliable in all but the absolute worst blizzard conditions. We are lucky in that we also have our main office in town as well so we can have a hard-wired DSL connection there, which is just used for uploading stuff onto our servers.

In the EU (although I think that most are now the same) Satellite DSL is blisteringly fast, 100% reliable and very soon will be able to upload perfectly as well but at the moment we are a step back from that and if you need to *depend* upon it for uploading it will let you down.

[Basic_man]

I don't think there's no fast satellite upload..

[latinasojourn]

Originally posted by SGS
If you are looking to upload through satellite you are wasting your time for couple of reasons.

1. Even those with good upload speeds will cap you after 100mb per month unless you make a prior arrangement (i.e. Money changing hands).

2. Upload through a satellite link usually works in small packets so even though you can upload very quickly it does still cause a lot of problems with FTP programs crashing and corruption problems with larger video files for instance that have to be uploaded in 10,000 separate parts rather than as one big 10 + mb file.

We have a 10mbps satellite connection at the office here which is being upgraded to a 40mbps connection in late July / early August. For all surfing, downloading and general day-to-day work it is absolutely brilliant. The latest one we have here has zero latency and 100% reliable in all but the absolute worst blizzard conditions. We are lucky in that we also have our main office in town as well so we can have a hard-wired DSL connection there, which is just used for uploading stuff onto our servers.

In the EU (although I think that most are now the same) Satellite DSL is blisteringly fast, 100% reliable and very soon will be able to upload perfectly as well but at the moment we are a step back from that and if you need to *depend* upon it for uploading it will let you down.

yes, but high speed 2-way satellite is coming for the masses, and also high power WI-FI. cost is too high for hard wiring compared to radio type transmission.

within 5 years most all high speed will be wireless IMO.