[ShadowAce]

[sinanju]

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...

[rednesss]

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.

[TSgt]

But will I get a $40.00 coupon from the government for the equipment?

;)

[Egon]

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)

[CDHart]

This would be great - we only have dialup here, unless we spend major dollars.

Carolyn

[avg_freeper]

"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.

[Obadiah]

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.

[Spktyr]

That’s nice, but you’re still going to have a 250ms minimum ping time, rendering this USELESS for online gaming.

[Tarpon]

There is a theoretical signalling symbol limit for every communications channel, that cannot be exceed. It's called the Shannon limit.

[Nervous Tick]

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.

[amigatec]

I am on Wildblue and had good luck with it has a much better Fap policy than Dirctway. The biggest problem is the weather. When it storms you better watch TV unless that is Sat also.LOL

[dialup]

I am also stuck with you know what, however verizon is going to plant a cell tower in my back yard, so I am looking forward to trying evdo.

[HAL9000]

Satellite will be a great way to get broadband Internet - in Africa.

In the United States, we should be installing fiber optic cable to every home, school and business.