Satellite Internet Forum

Anyone know of any ISP's that provide two way Internet that will allow self-installs? My home is in America (Florida) however I am currently stationed in Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba which limits who can come and do an installation. Any advice on a two way provider that will allow a self install is appreciated.

Router Hosted Hughes Net FAP Monitor

Description
This script fap-monitor.sh runs quite nicely on a Linksys WRT54GL router under Tomato firmware. I'm not sure what other routers or firmwares it might work with. It is for use on HughesNet satellite connections, which implement Fair Access Policy (FAP) i.e. the WAN bandwidth is severely limited for over 24 hours when a predefined amount of data is transferred between certain hours of the day.

This script allows ...

Understand How Hughes FAP Policy Works
And
How You Can Manage the FAP Policy Using the hnFAPmon Application

The hnFAPmon application was written to monitor and manage your internet connection usage so you do not become subject to the Hughes Fair Access Policy (FAP). It has been written, modified, improved, and changed as more and more information, studies, and user input have been received.

This text provides a basic understanding of what the components are ...

My download speeds with Xplornet range from 12kb/s to 116 Kb/second :!: I pay
$84.00/month for this. This is still faster than my download speeds on dial up
but when they send me to a speed test site I come around 800 Kb/sec but when
I test on other test sites I am getting between 450 to 600 kb/sec that's not even
close to the one Mb/sec ...

I purchased DirecTV with Wild Blue Satellite. Previously when running DSL Linksys wireless was sufficient. Now though the Linksys is similar to a hare running vs a jaguar.
Are there any routers for wireless internet that would replace the Linksys and speed up my wireless system?

I will be traveling in the jungles of peru in october and I would like to get the best deal out there . I will be using the internet for communication with my work at home. (USA)

- Equipment are in what freq range?
- What is the normal transmit power level?
- In the US if your connected to cable then most US is getting 56k?
- Standard satelitte is 56k?

Thanks,
Tahzib

Please, what is the committed information rate (CIR) and how does this apply to a shared satellite Internet platform?

How can one use this figure to calculate the number of computers that a particular bandwidth tier can support.

For instance, 1024/128 shared platform with 8:1 contention. what is the CIR, and how many systems can hook up?

thank you in advance for the answers!