To: HAL9000
The article should have mentioned the horrible latency associated with satellite. This is no replacement for broadband.
11 posted on
05/29/2005 1:11:11 AM PDT by
Melas
To: Melas
>>>The article should have mentioned the horrible latency associated with satellite. This is no replacement for broadband.
Hope the kinds are not on-line gamers...that latency is a real killer for on-line games...
14 posted on
05/29/2005 1:14:23 AM PDT by
Keith in Iowa
(Life's a beach - and Liberals are like the sand that gets in your swimsuit...)
To: Melas
The article should have mentioned the horrible latency associated with satellite. On the web side, you can mitigate some of that by having the browser do lots of link preloading. On the other hand, gaming is right out, and VoIP is likely to be not much fun either. But if you're out in the sticks, what choice do you really have?
16 posted on
05/29/2005 1:17:41 AM PDT by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: Melas
The article should have mentioned the horrible latency associated with satellite. This is no replacement for broadband. Wildblue claims their system will be better than competing satellite services. The satellite has a simple "bent-pipe" architecture with Ka-band spot beam technology. The Mentat TCP/IP stack is optimized for satellite data transmission.
19 posted on
05/29/2005 1:43:19 AM PDT by
HAL9000
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To: Melas
This is no replacement for broadband.Of course not,the problem is when you CAN'T get broadband,or DSL or anything other than 28.8 dial-up.
I've been a Beta tester for Wildblue for a couple of months and I'm totally satisfied.
32 posted on
05/29/2005 4:41:29 AM PDT by
oldsalt
(There's no such thing as a free lunch.)
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