kaspaas
Expert Member
I was recently in Angola doing work for a major SA company.
They had a satellite connection to the Internet with a dish of about 2m diameter (the headoffice IT empire handled it, so I'm still waiting for answers on speed etc)
It worked reasonably well when it was cloudless (this happened seldom while I was there). When there were clouds between the dish and the satellite, speeds decreased substantially. (which was usually)
When it rained , speeds dropped even more until the connection was lost due to too much rain.
Satellite is often mooted as the solution for remote internet access, but I doubt if it really is as usefull as people think unless one can invest in a massive dish and sender to penetrate clouds and rain.
They had a satellite connection to the Internet with a dish of about 2m diameter (the headoffice IT empire handled it, so I'm still waiting for answers on speed etc)
It worked reasonably well when it was cloudless (this happened seldom while I was there). When there were clouds between the dish and the satellite, speeds decreased substantially. (which was usually)
When it rained , speeds dropped even more until the connection was lost due to too much rain.
Satellite is often mooted as the solution for remote internet access, but I doubt if it really is as usefull as people think unless one can invest in a massive dish and sender to penetrate clouds and rain.
