ronb spicyayam wroteTheir prices seem pretty good over my current provider. No - but really keen to know about any alternatives you find.
spicyayam They offered a 3 day trial and there is no installation fee because I already have the antennae. Anything has got to be better than Spicelink.
ronb Hey! go for it and keep us updated. Things to check: * use speedtest.net to check download and upload speeds * are they using a satellite link? check the ping times to somewhere in US or similar, for example our rotary web-site in Arizona (rotary-bali-lovina.org) gives ping times around 350 ms. A satellite link will add 300-400 ms giving times of 700 or even more that 1000. * how complex is the ISP's local network? In the tracrt below all the 202.122.*.* addresses are spicelink. So we need 17 hops to get to google.co.id - but 8 of them are hopping around Spicelink machines before we leave Bali. $ tracert google.co.id Tracing route to google.co.id [72.14.254.104] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms dd-wrt [192.168.1.1] 2 4 ms 2 ms 3 ms hotspot.spicelink.net [202.122.174.161] 3 19 ms 6 ms 6 ms 202.122.163.101 4 287 ms 214 ms 11 ms 202.122.164.25 5 8 ms 6 ms 13 ms 202.122.163.141 6 11 ms 115 ms 101 ms 202.122.164.17 7 128 ms 83 ms 9 ms 202.122.161.65 8 25 ms 21 ms 9 ms c0r3-ip-160-1.spicelink.net [202.122.160.1] 9 100 ms 102 ms 25 ms 181.210.iconpln.net.id [202.162.210.181] 10 150 ms 101 ms 102 ms 25.175.iconpln.net.id [119.252.175.25] 11 125 ms * * 34.175.iconpln.net.id [119.252.175.34] 12 100 ms 145 ms 100 ms 1.174.iconpln.net.id [119.252.174.1] 13 122 ms 102 ms 101 ms if-6-0-6.core1.s2e-singapore.as6453.net [216.6.9 1.41] 14 * 203 ms 204 ms ix-6-0-5.core1.s2e-singapore.as6453.net [216.6.9 1.54] 15 125 ms 101 ms 101 ms 209.85.243.156 16 128 ms 139 ms 99 ms 72.14.233.107 17 127 ms 102 ms 101 ms sin01s04-in-f104.1e100.net [72.14.254.104] Trace complete.
