satellite systems

[S@M]

Say someone wanted to set up high speed internet access in the Mekong delta, or Africa - countries like Botswana etc....

any ideas on the suitability of Satellite technology for up and downloads - or other options in countries where the isp data is not well known, or is known to be very poor/unreliable/non existant....

any ideas on this...

[ForM]

Costly set up fee, high montly fee and your stuck in a contract. Most cap you at a rediculusly low download cap, 200 megs and the up is about 32.0
Even download rates are the suck, about 96.0 but way better than 56k.

Dont even think about playing games on it.

[S@M]

thanks ForM,
it would not be for games - the download needs will be higher, adn related to database/internet searching, and downloads of pdf and rtf files. The uploads will be mostly word documents, its purely for work and communication, not games etc.

Do you have any idea on where I can look at costs, sources of services etc??

edit: im looking at Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia as typical places to set up

[Foo]

http://www.satsig.net/ivsatcos.htm

"100k downlink + 20k uplink = $500 per month"

[+JuggerNaut+]

thanks ForM,
it would not be for games - the download needs will be higher, adn related to database/internet searching, and downloads of pdf and rtf files. The uploads will be mostly word documents, its purely for work and communication, not games etc.

Do you have any idea on where I can look at costs, sources of services etc??

edit: im looking at Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia as typical places to set up

i'm curious as to what you do for a living or perhaps this is an endeavor of your own?

[Tormentius]

edit: im looking at Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia as typical places to set up

:icon6: Whats your reasoning on that? Different laws?

[S@M]

I work for a charitable organisation that among other aims seeks to assist developing countries to set up with the resources needed to develop their own epidemiology units, and answe their areas significant health problems. We do this by funding, or seeking funding to provide resuorces and training and international linkages between groups aiming for independence but with international peer support. The focus of our work is secondary research - systematic reviews, EB guidelines etc, health utilisation and evaluation.

thanks for the links Foo etc - its not me that will organise this, I have an IT team on it, but I like to try getting my head around things my teams are on to

[S@M]

edit: im looking at Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia as typical places to set up

:icon6: Whats your reasoning on that? Different laws?

its a little more pragmatic than that - we have a potential funder who has a primary interest in the Mekong Delta and river systems - tropical diseases territory

[Underpants?]

We use wildblue and DirecPC at two different satellite locations in the hills. DirecPC does get roughly 1 Mb down, and a very high-latency 90 Kb down. right around 90 bucks a month. No way in hell you're going to do Vonage, tcp/udp-based vpns, streaming music or -video on those whores, but for general browsing, ssl-based vpning, and email access it works just fine. Weather is hardly a factor--it snowed over 16" in 8 hours one time and the user reported very few 404's.