Did you ever talk on an overseas phone call that was via satellite? Did you ever talk on a maritime satellite phone link? It takes practice to communicate smoothly because of the long delay. It's why for voice traffic carriers prefer undersea fiber.
What are modem banks? Greg On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > The latency can't be because of the distance. Rf travels too fast for that. > I expect there are large modem banks on the satellite. > > >> On Sep 22, 2010 9:40 PM, "Greg Ihnen" <os10ru...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> That's the speed of light in a vacuum. It's somewhat slower in matter (air). >> >> I use satellite internet here and the latency is a little under 800ms at >> best. A ping has to go from my terminal up to the satellite, down to the >> earth station, back up from the earth station, and back down to my terminal. >> >> I blink at least once waiting for my ping to come back. >> >> Greg >> >> On Sep 22, 2010, at 7:21 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: >> >> > Totally agree. >> > >> >> When your Internet has to ... >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Jo... >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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