Re: Satellite internet sucks
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:55 pm
Could have told ya about the Satellite thing ... tried it when Hughes first started out back in the 90's... I was after pure bandwidth back then.
Because even the speed of light takes ~500ms to go from your house, up to a bird 22,000 Miles in space, down to you're providers NOC, to you destination via the normal Internet infrastructure, back to their NOC, returning to the bird in the sky (+22,00mi), and finally back to su casa .... not even considering the conversion along the way as well (electric to RF...).
So if you're good at math, I would trust the speed of light is holding constant to do more than 88,000 miles in ~500ms ...
Because even the speed of light takes ~500ms to go from your house, up to a bird 22,000 Miles in space, down to you're providers NOC, to you destination via the normal Internet infrastructure, back to their NOC, returning to the bird in the sky (+22,00mi), and finally back to su casa .... not even considering the conversion along the way as well (electric to RF...).
So if you're good at math, I would trust the speed of light is holding constant to do more than 88,000 miles in ~500ms ...