Good advice. I have one site that uses a Direcway "Business Class" 
connection. The throughput is horrible during certain times of the day 
and there are only three users with email at the location.

Using a VPN connection from there to our main office for certain apps 
is very slow. I believe the nature of the encryption algorithms used 
to make the VPN secure really messes with the satellite equipments 
ability to efficiently compress the data.

Tim

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> I'd advise to test anything satellite before committing to it. Satellite
> internet connections don't necessarily behave like other connections.
> You're not even allowed to open a VPN channel over some of them.

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