In which we still have no satellite internet, and encounter a virus
Published at 8:20 pm on February 2nd, 2006
Filed under: Geekery.
Quite a few people, recently, have come to this site looking for information on Aramiska, the European satellite ISP which apparently collapsed last week. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be any information, anywhere. The company promised to release a statement on January 30th; it never appeared. Their disappearance is still a mystery.
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Keyword noise: Aramiska, Brepibot, broadband, internet, ISP, out of business, satellite, satellite broadband, security, service, trojan, backdoor, vanishing, virus.
In which the internet disappears without warning
Published at 7:40 pm on January 27th, 2006
Filed under: Geekery.
At the office, our main internet connection for many years has been a satellite broadband link, from Dutch company Aramiska. When the directors first wanted broadband, it was the cheapest solution. It’s slower than ADSL, and a lot more expensive,* but it’s still more reliable. Well, it was, until this rather surprising email arrived this morning:
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Keyword noise: Aramiska, broadband, internet, ISP, out of business, satellite, satellite broadband, service, utilities.
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