At 01:13 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Eric Davis wrote:

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).

Anybody know what the total average bps rate for, say, USENET is?

Think it supports multicast/broadcast by default...

It sounds like it might be a good addition to a network of remailers... Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com