Posted on 06/02/2014 9:21:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Now Google is going to dominate space: Search giant to launch 180 satellites to provide internet access for the ENTIRE planet, sources claim
The world wide web may seem like a global community, but two-thirds of the planet still remain without access.
Now, Google is planning to change this by launching a fleet of 180 satellites to provide web access for the 4.8 billion people not yet online, according to sources close to the company.
The California-based giant will spend more than $1 billion (£600 million) on the technology, which will rival Facebook’s efforts to connect remote regions of the world.
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I actually like Bing more than Google though, lol. At least it changes pics daily.
I think Pale Moon actually looks a bit cleaner or crisper than Firefox and Chromium.
I expect your download is fast and your upload is snail-paced
It’ll be like health care for illegals, but on a global basis. We will pay for it, and the ones who can’t pay for it will get it for free.
I also like the pics on Bing. One of the reasons I haven’t changed yet. At least Bing sometimes observes American values.
On the Ookla speed test, 4.11 meg down and 0.69 up. No optimizations on the PC, Win 7 64 bit, using Firefox 20.0.1
Okay, not blazing fast on the downloads, but if you live in a rural area it’s probably the best you can get.
At the moment my download is a slow slow 21 MBps (hould be higher) and upload is 5.42 MBps
If I was plugged into the router instead of using wifi I should get twice that download speed.
We use Time Warner internet, the pricy package which gives us up to 50 MBps download, although I have seen it a little higher than that.
I can’t even get dial-up out here. Bell system moved us off of a party line way back when, to a dedicated line with a bad ground hum they claim they could never fix. Finally went with solely cellular. Still was unable to get a decent signal with AT&T until recently. Satellite seems to be about the only viable solution here.
Damn, that saying used to be "... a station wagon filled with 9-track tapes...". How far we've come.
Actually these days my favorite would be a 747 loaded with solid-state hard drives...
Yes, I cut a notch with a hole punch so I could use the other side.
I've still got an 8080 version of WordStar(tm).
/johnny
At an altitude of 4000 miles or less, it IS low latency if the path is just to the bird and back. Iridium’s problem is low throughput and if there is a latency issue, it’s due to the hardware, switching data between birds, terrestrial equipment and gateways, not its altitude. I’m aware of what Iridium is used for—more than just phone calls. Iridium is at almost 500 miles above the surface. A direct 1000 mile round trip via satellite is faster than a round trip on fiber from DC to Chicago (light in fiber travels at 66% of the speed of light in a vacuum)—but Iridium data don’t always take the shortest path getting to Hilo and Tempe.
With what Google is proposing, it will be much less.
These satellites will be in a low earth orbit. So, the round-trip time will be small, compared to the round-trip time up to a geosynchronous satellite and back down.
I just started a new contract with a company that has very few workers who understand Linux. I was talking with one of their Windows tech guys and asked him to look at a file. Let's call it File_A. I said "run more on File_A." So he typed "moron File_A." I'm NOT kidding. I could not stop laughing and felt bad for the guy.
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