On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 23:20 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > Brace yourself - it's $60/mo - there's a problem with it, which is latency. > Your bits have to travel 26k miles out to space, then back, and then the > second round trip for all the hand shaking and so forth. Once a connection is > established, it's supposed to pretty fast, but, if you're doing a lot of > jumping around from site to site, it's reported to be annoying. Things that > are associated with time-outs also tend to occur more frequently. A friend of mine had satellite internet, his would completely drop out during rain, just like satellite television would (being affected by rain does depend on the frequencies being used). I had an ISP that used a satellite link between them and their upstream provider, while we were all on wired connections to the ISP, their service sucked in just the way that you described. Satellite internet would be a last resort choice for me. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
