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To: Kaslin

Satellite Internet sucks due to latency. Nobody who has a reasonable alternative would ever use it. (I do realize there are many folks who do not have a reasonable alternative.)


24 posted on 05/19/2018 8:26:05 AM PDT by KevinB (I do not care for this Obama fellow.)
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To: KevinB

Yes, IF you are linked to a geosynchronous satellite. Those are a LONG ways up.

If you can communicate through a swarm of close-in low earth orbit satellites, the latency is unnoticeable.


29 posted on 05/19/2018 9:16:26 AM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
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To: KevinB

Hughs Net = Geosynchronous. Typical service 2/3 of a second delay. Low orbit satellite delay is about 25 thousandth of a second — same as cable or DSL.


41 posted on 05/19/2018 10:13:43 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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