Satellite Connection

donaloconnor

Hi everyone.

Can anyone till me if there is any way to recieve the internet through satelitte free using the right hardware?

Thanks!

Boston

None, not free anyway, all this hacking for free net stuff is total urban legend. There are a series of protocols on any service like this.

Anyway, for the price of the equipment needed to atempt such a thing, you would get a nice 64k leased line

donaloconnor

Is there any company out there that offer Satellite Internet Connection in Ireland for a good price. I'm willing to pay €40 Euros a month, and about €300 for Hardware.

Thanks.

Regards,

mayhem#

Not a chance for that money!
The cheapest you get is a 400k down and 128k up connection for 150 Euros a month...

flamegrill

The service that mayhem is talking about is a load of poo anyway :P

3 gig a month download limit, with a 400mb daily download limit. Also if you exceed capacity for a certain amount of time, you get throttle down to 56k or something similar. This is due to their isp imposing restrictions.

And plus the equipment is €800 (they say u get it back after a year though)
there is also a ...

Radio Appliance Licence (required)
Dept of communications Licence fee for Ireland €125.00 pa England and Northern Ireland €125.00 pa
Rest of Europe POA

link to the site http://www.eirstream.net/prices.htm

mayhem#

I just love it how people always complain about the lack of broadband Internet access in Ireland, and then when something better comes along they do nothing than give out about it!
This is exactly why you will NEVER have the low-cost broadband in Ireland....

MoSeS_.

Heard about a bidirectional sattelite dish system available in the UK and Ireland and got a bit excited, until I saw the price ....

http://www.beamsolutions.net/pricing.html

Service Maximum speeds
Downlink up to 512Kbps
Uplink up to 153Kbps

Service Price
Connection £249.99 €413
Monthly fee (Single) £109.99 €182
Monthly fee (Multi) £199.99 €330
Installer's fee £149.99 €248 (standard installation)*

All prices exclude VAT and other taxes. The connection fee is a one off charge.


*Installation fee is a guide charge, which will be decided by your installer, depending on the complexity of the installation. This fee must be paid directly to them.

Blade

Originally posted by Boston
None, not free anyway, all this hacking for free net stuff is total urban legend. There are a series of protocols on any service like this.

Anyway, for the price of the equipment needed to atempt such a thing, you would get a nice 64k leased line

Not true sorry,

Point your dish on Astra 19.2
Get an old cheap Nokia D-Box 9600 (for about 100 quid second hand)
Flash it through your PC with the DVB 2000 software
Get a cheap SCSI card that has an external SCSI connector and connect it up to the SCSI port on the D-Box
Setup your ipdvb/2000 software on the PC side for EON
And off you go, grab other peoples downloads FREE

OK you can't choose the files you want to download but with the amount of data being broadcast continuously you'll get a heap of stuff and you don't need any subscription to a Sat ISP, you don't even have to be online! No urban legend there boy.

chernobyl

Multicast downloads are encrypted, many downloads have been known to be corrupted when passed via this system.

Blade

It's not great I know but it does work, it's only for a bit of fun if you already have all the gear sitting there doing nothing, esp. the old D-Box that took the full size CAM's. Theres still a load of stuff comin down Chernobyl.

chernobyl

EON is about the be revised to Multicast only very soon.
If a Multicast download is not passed through Fazzt then how do you get the decryption key from the download.

When passed through the DVB software you just recieve an encrypted an essentially useless file, although from the little i know about you Blade, maybe you have a method of dumping the keys out.

As for the EON revision, TP115 will soon move from 4 to 16 2mb/sec Multicast transmissions, if that proves successful expect the same on all.