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New Satellite Promises Better Broadband
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| 9 January 2008
| ANICK JESDANUN
Posted on 01/09/2008 11:33:49 AM PST by ShadowAce
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:33:50 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:34:03 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Take that! Digital Divide.
Of course, such innovations won’t stop a President Hillary of Obama from creating another Rural Internetification Authority but it’s nice to have...
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:37:42 AM PST
by
sinanju
To: ShadowAce
I’m not all the worried about speed. Try improving the latency times. You can have a 10 GB connection, but if the lag time between me clicking on a link and the information being sent to me is 2 minutes, it doesn’t feel very fast.
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:41:00 AM PST
by
rednesss
(Fred Thompson - 2008)
To: ShadowAce
But will I get a $40.00 coupon from the government for the equipment?
;)
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:41:26 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
To: ShadowAce
Dankberg said the satellite could handle Internet traffic in both directions, so customers could send, or upload, data at speeds comparable to cable and DSL. Some satellite systems send data in one direction only, meaning customers need a regular - and slow - dial-up modem for uploading. I had satellite for about four years because of my location. It's head and shoulders above dial-up.
It will never be comparable to DSL or Cable (or even rural wireless, which is another alternative they failed to mention) because of one thing: Latency
Latency keeps you from doing (or hinders greatly) stuff like:
- Online Gaming
- VPN
- Web 2.0 sites (depending)
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:43:24 AM PST
by
Egon
("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
To: ShadowAce
This would be great - we only have dialup here, unless we spend major dollars.
Carolyn
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:46:28 AM PST
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: ShadowAce
"Dankberg said the satellite could handle Internet traffic in both directions, so customers could send, or upload, data at speeds comparable to cable and DSL." So consumer satellite dishes are powerful enough to send data to something in orbit? I didn't know this was possible.
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:47:21 AM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: ShadowAce
Honestly, I fear for the future of this country. Every transaction, almost all commerce, most all documents depend on the Internet. Can you fathom what would happen if all or part of the Internet was knocked out by a foreign enemy? Scary.
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:51:16 AM PST
by
Obadiah
(I don't like to brag - but I'm half bilingual!)
To: ShadowAce
That’s nice, but you’re still going to have a 250ms minimum ping time, rendering this USELESS for online gaming.
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:51:56 AM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Egon
Exactly. Latency is a huge killer. I would never use sat broadband unless I absolutely had to.
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:52:49 AM PST
by
Obadiah
(I don't like to brag - but I'm half bilingual!)
To: ShadowAce
There is a theoretical signalling symbol limit for every communications channel, that cannot be exceed. It's called the
Shannon limit.
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:53:22 AM PST
by
Tarpon
(Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
To: avg_freeper
So consumer satellite dishes are powerful enough to send data to something in orbit? I didn't know this was possible.DirecTV has been selling this for several years. The equipment isn't free or cheap.
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posted on
01/09/2008 11:55:09 AM PST
by
js1138
To: avg_freeper
So consumer satellite dishes are powerful enough to send data to something in orbit? Yes, check out DirecPC.
I had it several years ago. Quite fast, but latency was annoying. It cost about $400 for the dish + modem, plus $65 per month.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:02:15 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: rednesss
Try improving the latency times. You mean by curving space-time or something?
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:04:45 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurtureā¢)
To: Obadiah
Latency makes VOIP impossible, not to mention gaming.
Then there’s that little $49.99, 7500MB per-rolling-30-days bandwith limit that strangles you in no time, especially if the “city cousins” with high speed cable internet send you big files. You want more bandwith, you pay a lot more.
WB’s reliability has been very good, but a couple of months after I signed up they slashed the bandwith by 25% without an appropriate reduction in price. I’m still steaming over that one.
Verizon EVDO is supposed to be alive and well in my area. I’m not sure it’s a good compromise.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:08:07 PM PST
by
Kieri
(Midwest Snark Claw & Feather Club Founder)
To: ShadowAce
A satellite due to launch in three years promises to expand high-speed Internet services to rural Americans who cannot get access through cable or phone companies.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:12:05 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Retire Ron Paul! Support Chris Peden (www.chrispeden.org))
To: steve86
Try improving the latency times.You mean by curving space-time or something?
Speed of light: a blessing and a curse.
To: Spktyr
I’m on satellite internet (hughesnet) and I can’t even update windows. They have something called a fair access policy and if I download like 300 megs within 24 hours they cut me off for 24 hours.
I could upgrade to the business service but even there I can only download 1GB or so.
limited unlimited internet sucks. I can deal with high ping times but this just sucks.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:16:20 PM PST
by
Ainast
To: rednesss
I used a satellite link at a remote location a few weeks ago (we were on vacation, and it was all that was available.) The speed was painful. Then I was trying to complete some work, and even though this cabin is used very seldom, somehow, there is a broadband limit imposed during a 24 hour period (obviously it’s not a monthly limit, or cumulative in that it rolls over if not used.) I evidently exceeded it and was shut out completely until the start of the next 24 hour day. I told my husband, rural living is nice, but I could never deal with the internet issues, or the cell phone issues (we couldn’t get reception.)
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:28:42 PM PST
by
dawn53
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