[LINK] ipstar and open standards [Was: ETT spruiks satellite broadband in face of OPEL and Govt plans]

[David Boxall]

George Bray wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008 5:34 PM, David Boxall <david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au> 
> wrote:
>> Where (apart from up) is the IPSTAR satellite anyway?
>
> 119.5E
> http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/ipstar.html
Thanks George,

That would put it somewhere above Sulawesi:
<http://maps.google.com.au/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=0,120&spn=0.010128,0.014591&z=16&om=0>. 


Things could be worse - if I was one of their New Zealand customers.  
Presumably, I'd need to have a clear view of the Tasman (and hope the 
waves don't get too high).  I guess it's a miracle the thing works at 
all, so far East of the satellite.

Tinkering with the ipstar modem, I discovered that the configuration 
page doesn't work in Firefox.  This tag from the page source probably 
gives a clue to the reason: <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft 
FrontPage 4.0">.  Funny thing is, it doesn't work reliably in IE 6 or 7 
either.

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