I see $4,000+ for the Iridium terminal and $500/m for a 100MB plan. Thats really really expensive for not a lot of data. Click the wrong link from HN front pag

I see $4,000+ for the Iridium terminal and $500/m for a 100MB plan. Thats really really expensive for not a lot of data. Click the wrong link from HN front page and you could burn through half that in one click! I suppose it could be doable. You'd want to be setup with all your software and development environment before hand and just use the satellite connection for text-only email/chat. Maybe SSH to an outside server and use w3m for web browsing?