MrWizard

To add on to my comment, you could do something since you stated that you're about 10.5km away from a fiber optic equipped city. If your ISP provides FTTH (fiber to the home) you could ask them to install the line required (or find out if it already exists) to link your house via a fiber cable to the city's grid. This option is most likely extremely expensive for the average person, though. It's only an option because fiber cables are able to run much greater distances than copper. You still need two end points. His ISP, or a service that offers air fiber via pointing transceivers at eachother, would need to provide this. As far as I'm aware the air fiber stuff from ubiquiti is meant more for buisinesses that want to link up long range wireless access points or linking long distance networks together.

Network speed is as fast as your slowest link between two points. If the bottleneck is your satellite connection you will only have speeds that fast.

It's doing a good job then.

I'll bite. There are many ways to do maintenance without taking the forum down, and 90% of the tweaks we do are completely invisible and require no interruption of service (which is why you don't hear about them). The only time we do maintenance where we need to take the forum offline are when we're working on a critical piece that is either dynamic in nature or can't physically be online or powered on while we're working on it (such as physical movement of the pieces). Long story short, you only hear about maintenance and offline notices when we're doing something that requires there to be something offline or inaccessible by normal usage of the forum. You'll hear more about it on the WAN show tonight. Stay tuned.

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This or Banana Pi... Hm.

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It is having a moment. Plans are in motion to rectify it all, coming very soon.

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Not likely.

We're working to resolve the issues. Sorry everyone.

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