Boeing's Connexion announcement

Sat Oct 14 11:35:34 UTC 2006

Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
> Fascinating...  of course, you can see where the confusion came from,
> particularly given the source of some of the components and the fact
> that they're not actually committed until they get the orders (hence,
> no satellite capacity online _today_).  Thanks for the additional
> data; I'm sure everyone here will be watching this one closely; the
> "email/web/irc/AIM from the skies" imperative runs quite high in our
> community ;-)
>
>   
Early on I was also able to use Skype (with video) successfully but 
lately the capacity has just not been there. Not sure if they've reduced 
it towards the end or if the usage has picked up enough for there not to 
be spare capacity for ~200kbps video.

Pete