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Title: satellite phones, internet, radio Post by: jago25_98 on June 20, 2012, 11:27:58 AM Quote Internet via satellite phone For many years [when? ]satellite phones have been able to connect to the internet. Bandwidth varies from about 2400 bit/s for Iridium network satellites and ACeS based phones to 15 kbit/s upstream and 60 kbit/s downstream for Thuraya handsets. Globalstar also provides internet access at 9600 bit/s—like Iridium and ACeS a dial-up connection is required and is billed per minute, however both Globalstar and Iridium are planning to launch new satellites offering always-on data services at higher rates. With Thuraya phones the 9,600 bit/s dial-up connection is also possible, the 60 kbit/s service is always-on and the user is billed for data transferred (about $5 per megabyte ). The phones can be connected to a laptop or other computer using a USB or RS-232 interface. Due to the low bandwidths involved it is extremely slow to browse the web with such a connection, but useful for sending email, Secure Shell data and using other low-bandwidth protocols. Since satellite phones tend to have omnidirectional antennas no alignment is required as long as there is a line of sight between the phone and the satellite. Anyone have experience of this? Also, is there a way to get satellite radio in Europe and south America without a subscription? And can a sat phone be used to get sat radio... for that matter what is the most hackable sat receiver? A net book and gnu radio I suppose? I work at sea, recently on a boat with no communications or radio to the outside world. Thinking of getting a portable sat radio. Surprised there's not more phone to pups available via btc... |