Starband Files for Chapter 11

PalmKiller writes "Well it looks like Starband is going into chapter 11. I got the email a few days ago. And just when I got CYGWIN with squid proxy working beautifully. With winproxy I rarely got any thoughput on my clients (20-50KBytes/sec or 160-360Kbits/sec), on squid I finally am getting 80-95KBytes/sec (640-760Kbits/sec continuously) and some faster bursts. Well, I guess I will ride her till she falls over and dies." Looks like Echostar's tactics have been successful. And we just did an article a few weeks ago on Starband's service, where most commenters weren't very happy.

Comments

Oh my god the Internets going bankrupt!

[Xcrap]

First KNPQwest, now Starband! Whos going to be next? (I hope its Microsoft).

Well, shoot

[Dr. Smeegee]

Guess I can let my installation certs lapse now... :-)

Too bad. A decent service if you don't have access to cable/dsl.

What I first thought it said

[reschly]

and would have also made me a lot happier:

Starbucks files for chapter 11.

News For News, Stuff That Isnt Familliar To Anyone

[Bowie J. Poag]

Here's Your Slashdot Daily Recap, Applicable to every article that has run since late '99:

Two companies you've never heard of are fighting over something you're not familliar with, and as a result, theyre leaving virtually TENS of people without a service you havent heard of either!

An evil corporate entity you've never heard of is DANGEROUSLY CLOSE to finally pushing a bill you've never heard of through Congress that will DANGEROUSLY restrict the rights you're not quite sure you had to begin with!

A popular author you've never heard of has a new book you've never heard of...Don't laugh! Critics you've never heard of are hailing it as a masterpiece, and the author himself has an enormous mob of fans (numbering in the dozens!!!) who have read everything he has written, including several other titles you've never heard of. He gets compared to William Gibson somewhere along the way, which makes him incredibly relevant, because everyone knows William Gibson = Relevant.

Someone has finally perfected a way to do something you were never aware of, which involves a cash prize, numerous officiating bodies you've never heard of and extra-long acronyms everyone but you has known about for years... These acronyms, so sinister, often stretch into the mind-numbing 4 and 5-letter category.

Someone wanna write a Perl script to replace Slashdot the same way that Slashdot wrote one to replace Jon Katz?

You Guys All Missed The Obvious One

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm shocked that no one commented on the unfettered spirit of humanity demonstrated in this comment.

"Well, I guess I will ride her till she falls over and dies."

That's the spirit tiger! ;)

Re:Slashdot: antinews for nerds, nothing else matt

[zulux]

called "hyperlinks" and take you to other places on the "internet"


I have the internet in my hard-drive under the desk - sometimes though, it disappears and clicking on the "e" doesen't work. Sometimes, though, clicking on the "N" works, and the internet works.

Gotta go - the paperclip is helping me write a letter.