<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Edwin,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sorry for the late reply - but has your friend considered ISDN? Throughput may not be quite as good, but it may be the only alternative for latency sensitive applications. You'll find that latency on satellite is usually around the ~700-800ms mark, weather and location permitting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Curtis </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 03/06/2007, at 12:55 PM, Edwin Groothuis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks to all who replied. Much appreciated by my friend, and I've</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">learned quite some about what the possibilities are.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Edwin</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Edwin Groothuis<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>|<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Personal website: <A href="http://www.mavetju.org">http://www.mavetju.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:edwin@mavetju.org">edwin@mavetju.org</A><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>|<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">AusNOG mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:AusNOG@ausnog.net">AusNOG@ausnog.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://www.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>_________________________________________________</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Curtis Bayne</DIV><DIV>Managing Director & Co-Founder</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Neural Networks Data Services</DIV><DIV>The way information moves.</DIV><DIV>ACN 124 535 075</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mobile: 0409 - 344 - 968</DIV><DIV>E-Mail: <A href="mailto:curtis.bayne@neural.com.au">curtis.bayne@neural.com.au</A></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>