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...and the less is spoken of the time I found myself >1000km from the nearest wired network point and needed to download an 8MB file over Iridium, the better.
by lb1lf 9y ago
...and the less is spoken of the time I found myself >1000km from the nearest wired network point and needed to download an 8MB file over Iridium, the better.
Let's just say it makes you appreciate download managers a lot. The same appreciation was not extended to my IT department, which had decided -without informing me- that the service tool I had installed prior to departure was a potential risk and had quietly removed it...
Besides, if you are less -ahem- cost-sensitive, Inmarsat offers FleetBroadband which from geostationary orbit easily gives you >100kbps (as long as you are not anywhere near the poles!)
As an added bonus, rain fade is not much of an issue; I believe it uses L band. (Same as GPS/GLONASS/Galileo)
- planteen 9y agoSounds like we could swap stories. :-) Trying to one text messages in and one out was a 20 minute affair in the rainy mountains of Peru with Iridium. Globalstar data service seemed to have random drops and periods where connection was impossible, even in dry weather. FleetBroadband sounds interesting.