To: the
The speed-of-light delay alone in satellite internet connections is just under half a second (0.47746 seconds, to be precise.) That's a LOT of latency in Internet terms, and that's the ABSOLUTE minimum you can expect with a satellite link -- "I canna' change the laws of physics, Captain!!" Starband sat internet includes software to cache pages locally, reducing the perceived delay, so that may be another consideration.
8 posted on
05/29/2002 8:28:24 PM PDT by
mvpel
To: mvpel
How does that old joke about latency vs bandwidth go, something like
"You can always build a bigger pipe but you can't bribe God."
9 posted on
05/29/2002 8:30:16 PM PDT by
the
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