[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[Rob Landry]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Broadcast List USER wrote:

> Actually, there is no place in the country without high speed Internet
> access, it's just that some people and some companies (stations) don't
> want to pay for it.

> Wild Blue and Hughes are available everywhere.

They're not necessarily usable, however. The Wild Blue TOS states their 
service will only work with specific OS and browser versions, will not 
work with VPN's, and are limited to specific data volume caps after which 
service will be "slowed".

The highest data cap WB lists on its Web site is 25 GB. A single 128 
Kbit/second stream is 16,000 bytes per second. That x 60 seconds / minute 
x 60 minutes/hour x 24 hours / day works out to 1,382,400,000 bytes per 
day. That will hit the 25 GB data cap in 18 days, after which the stream 
would probably stop working.

Rob