What's the state of satellite access today in terms of cost, quality, speed and service?
Is it completely acceptable or a frustrating experience? I ask because of all the open source developers out there, I'm kind of envious of the way you go about it. More and more, I'd love the opportunity to go spend a few weeks to a few months in some cabin in the woods just building stuff.
(edit: for those that don't know, the above poster is Joey Hess who makes git-annex, etckeeper, tig, mr, etc. If you haven't already read it, check out: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/ )
The last time I used satellite was ten years ago and, I was on a Huges satellite which had a FAP that meant the max transfer per week was as small as dialup. (Possibly excluding some http pages that get cached in the satellite itself..) Plus ten times the latency.
Is it completely acceptable or a frustrating experience? I ask because of all the open source developers out there, I'm kind of envious of the way you go about it. More and more, I'd love the opportunity to go spend a few weeks to a few months in some cabin in the woods just building stuff.
(edit: for those that don't know, the above poster is Joey Hess who makes git-annex, etckeeper, tig, mr, etc. If you haven't already read it, check out: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/ )