OT: xanadu, yeah, but it's skechy. Around here where I live, even on windy, cloudy days the signal can get distorted and your SOL w/ your connection...nada.
Sure, on a deserted South Pacific isle beach w/ most of the year's weather being calm and sunny I can see connection being pretty constant. Unfortunately, most folks don't live in areas like that.
With GlobeTel's Sanswire Stratellites, I think they overcome that problem since they're in the earths atomosphere. That's why I think the government and military is so keen on working w/ them.
Happy New Year!
lns