Re: direct-pc

[Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

Satelites have more latency than other services -- so, ftp would run very
nice and quick and all, but something such as quake would be painfully slow.

On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 05:30:00AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Has anyone tried using direct-pc with Linux?
> (thats the satellite inter-net connection. see
> http://www.pdmnet.com/direcpdm.htm)  They say you need
> windows 95 (but so do alot of isp's that work with
> linux)  I can't get cable modem, or asdl where I live,
> and this service is in the same price ballpark as isdn
> but MUCH faster!
> 
> 
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> 
> http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze
> 
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