Re: Re: HIGH SPEED!

From: Michael Maskalans (dml@tepidcola.com)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2005 - 18:10:36 EST


On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:32:34 -0600, Aaron Wyse <awyse@sw.rr.com> wrote:

> Another rural alternative is satellite.. They now have them for 2 way high
> speed.. It used to be only on the DL side, but now you can do high speed for
> UL as well. It's not very economical yet, but still an alternative.
> Aaron

unfortunately latency is as bad or worse than dailup with a satalite, so for general browsing it's not appreciably faster than 56k dailup. Larger file downloads are of course faster, but a terminal session is nigh impossible...

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