Hughes offers a downlink product called DirectPC. The back channel is your regular modem. Telco/Analog your requests to their servers and the data is delivered via your DSS dish, sent to your PC and decoded via an ISA card. (Opt. DES downlink encryption) http://www.direcpc.com/ The downlink is shared 500Kb/s ( I think ). Though you can schedule a higher BW channel for A/V applications (or so the lit reads). Think it supports multicast/broadcast by default... Eric Davis ----------------------------------------------------- Eric Davis ericd@internet.net Director of Information Systems 415-842-7400 (V) Internet Shopping Network 415-842-7415 (F) Visit our site at: http://www.isn.com Personal contact: ericd@cyberfarm.com KD6HTO (R) ----------------------------------------------------- There are no law enforcers if law itself they ignore. -- Inka Inka -- Step Back -- Myth of the Machine -- On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, jim bell wrote:
At 08:28 PM 7/1/96 -0700, David Wagner wrote:
If folks have better ideas for how to achieve really good recipient anonymity, I hope they'll speak up!
Once they start offering Internet news/email/USENET feeds (one way) by DSS-type dish antenna from satellite, it'll be mighty hard to figure out who's receiving the data. They could probably easily provide 10 megabits per second, which I assume would be more than enough for what's needed.
(BTW, for a few years a company called "Planet Connect" has been providing FIDOnet data feeds, although they use the older-style, large antenna systems, and their data rate is 19.2kbps, not even close to enough for Internet service.)
Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com