yes, the only way to shut off a vsat is to go to the site and physically shut it down. Egypt is back online tho. What folk there did is dial in to eu dialup numbers set up by eu folk for just this purpose. ThePOTS system was working in egypt, when mobile and internet was cut off. Rgds, mctim On 2/25/11, warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear technical people, esp michuki, mctim, and Jean
given that Egypt, and now Libya have cut off Internet access, would it be possible to invest in VSATs in order to get some limited internet access via sattelite? Obviously, this will not help egyptian sites, but may allow access to sites based in the US?
Please advise.
Rigia
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