Starband Files for Chapter 11

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 7, 2002 @09:13AM from the satellite-will-save-us-from-DSL-monopolies dept.

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.

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Re:About damn time by tempmpi · 2002-06-07 10:25 · Score: 1, Troll

well, starband files chapter 11 wasn't the real news. Messing around with squid is what was important here.
Without some opensource reference (or anti-ms) this isn't worth a story.

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