A couple observations: 1. You will need to have a driver for your equipment in either case. If the driver isn't out there, then get to coding. 2. Most satalite systems experiance a high latency connection though they have high bandwidth as well. This can cause some confusion on the quality of the conncection. For instance the echo of typed messages over telnet might by long. When starting streamed media it may take a long time to buffer and if the player suypports it will fall to low bandwidth settings. Then after the stream becomes established the data will always be there and again if supported the player will attempt to move to a higher speed. If you are running Microslop, you will want to patch the system to deal with the high latency. Linux deals quite well and will realize the high bandwidth. M$ as shipped will assume a low bandwidth connection. 3. One of our members has been dreaming of his broadband connection and asking questions on how he might get it for some time. I doubt he is getting this one either. The stated cost is not significantly less then cable or DSL. Given that we have not heard why these haven't been implimented, I think this is just one more theoretical discussion which won't go anywhere. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
