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Waldo Pepper · 14-06-2011, 16:32

BGAN can work out insanely expensive. Especially if you want a link in the 256Kbits speed area with guaranteed bandwidth on demand. When I last used BGAN ~2006/7 with the Explorer 300 from Thrane & Thrane we were looking at $30/Mbyte.

Latency can be a real pain on TCPIP links as the handshaking has a long way to go (Geostationary satellites are usually ~25,000 miles up) which produces single trip delay of 1/10 second not including the waiting for a server to respond.

They are much better for streaming applications that use the UDP protocol.

Can you not use a full duplex microwave link (WiMax or other) to somewhere where there is some form of infrastructure?

Google "ethernet over microwave"

14-06-2011, 16:32	#6
Waldo Pepper Inactive Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: In the thick of East Anglia Posts: 573	Re: Two Way Satellite Broadband - Uplink Hosting BGAN can work out insanely expensive. Especially if you want a link in the 256Kbits speed area with guaranteed bandwidth on demand. When I last used BGAN ~2006/7 with the Explorer 300 from Thrane & Thrane we were looking at $30/Mbyte. Latency can be a real pain on TCPIP links as the handshaking has a long way to go (Geostationary satellites are usually ~25,000 miles up) which produces single trip delay of 1/10 second not including the waiting for a server to respond. They are much better for streaming applications that use the UDP protocol. Can you not use a full duplex microwave link (WiMax or other) to somewhere where there is some form of infrastructure? Google "ethernet over microwave"