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I asked that question to the lady on the phone, she said she can't really tell me! I don't know if it was a case that she didn't actually know(which the way she sounded led me to believe that), or she is not at liberty to tell a customer.

Telesat doesn't advertise their FAP specifics.. they don't even give them to their resellers. Trust me, it's a pain in the arse.

Just got it installed today.  Seems to be working good so far.  Its no high speed, but its much better than the dial up I just came from!!   

And one thing I have noticed already is that LimeWire seems to work good.  I thought I read somewhere that Xplornet doesn't allow the use of P2P.  Netkaster seems to be ok with it I guess.

Xplornet "allows" p2p as far as they don't actively block it. Honestly, Xplornet is just a reseller, so they don't have much control over the network itself. I imagine the same for NetKaster, but if p2p traffic becomes a problem, I would expect them to throlttle you.

compared to what exactly? internet via amateur radio? tube mail? smoke signals?

Ka (Telesat).

You got that right..

HughesNet (DirecWay) isn't that bad, though.

Technically it's just Telesat, Xplornet is just Telesat's largest reseller.. even bigger than Telesat's own service Anikast.

In all honesty guys, you can't compare wireless to each other unless you're in the same area as you would be on different networks and Xplornet has different transit providers for every network they have. If one network is having speed problems, that doesn't mean the others will.

Satellite, on the other hand, is a tricky call.

Thanks. I hope to be of some help to users.

simi-dimpskin, what province are you in?