This has long been one of my pet-peaves of the consumer group. This media blown hype that everyone seems to have boughten into that somewhere out there is some "l33t Haxors" that are just sitting around waiting to "steal your files"!!! Ooohhh nasty...
As for "beaming" your packets to the "entire continent" i wouldnt worry about that. Yes there is security measures in place but unless you have a large sat.dish. located roughly 1000 meters from the main NOC pointed and peaked correctly you will pick up nothin, exactly nothing.
Anyways its way too late and i am just being grouchy.
You can harldy base your entire argument on the fact that your had (what you think are) poor ping times. Personally i work for starband as second level tech support and it pains me (alternating with making me laugh) at what some of you ppl complain about. Ping times do indeed average in the 800-1200 range and this is what is considered normal. I wont get into the semantics of this but it IS a sat. you are trying to connect through. As for your 25% packet loss throw this command instead of the normal ping { ping -t 5000 -w www.yahoo.com } and you will lose that 25% packet loss. This is due to windose default on ping times. If it comes back over 1000ms it displays it as "lost" The "-w 5000" sets the timeout length to 5 secs. instead.
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This has long been one of my pet-peaves of the consumer group. This media blown hype that everyone seems to have boughten into that somewhere out there is some "l33t Haxors" that are just sitting around waiting to "steal your files"!!! Ooohhh nasty... As for "beaming" your packets to the "entire continent" i wouldnt worry about that. Yes there is security measures in place but unless you have a large sat.dish. located roughly 1000 meters from the main NOC pointed and peaked correctly you will pick up nothin, exactly nothing. Anyways its way too late and i am just being grouchy.
You can harldy base your entire argument on the fact that your had (what you think are) poor ping times. Personally i work for starband as second level tech support and it pains me (alternating with making me laugh) at what some of you ppl complain about. Ping times do indeed average in the 800-1200 range and this is what is considered normal. I wont get into the semantics of this but it IS a sat. you are trying to connect through. As for your 25% packet loss throw this command instead of the normal ping { ping -t 5000 -w www.yahoo.com } and you will lose that 25% packet loss. This is due to windose default on ping times. If it comes back over 1000ms it displays it as "lost" The "-w 5000" sets the timeout length to 5 secs. instead.