[92825] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Oct 14 07:37:01 2006
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:35:34 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Robert E.Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: Fearghas McKay <fm-lists@st-kilda.org>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87u027no5q.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
> Fascinating... of course, you can see where the confusion came from,
> particularly given the source of some of the components and the fact
> that they're not actually committed until they get the orders (hence,
> no satellite capacity online _today_). Thanks for the additional
> data; I'm sure everyone here will be watching this one closely; the
> "email/web/irc/AIM from the skies" imperative runs quite high in our
> community ;-)
>
>
Early on I was also able to use Skype (with video) successfully but
lately the capacity has just not been there. Not sure if they've reduced
it towards the end or if the usage has picked up enough for there not to
be spare capacity for ~200kbps video.
Pete
