On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 16:25:03 -0800, Adam Shand wrote: >>I'd stay away from sat until LEO stuff starts to come out.....the latency is >>500ms+ jumping out 33,000 miles. > >Yep... but from what I understand this is minimised by the two way >connection. Commands (eg. FTP/HTTP 'get' commands) are sent over the modem >link so latency is less of an issue. > >While I'm not sure about DirecPC in some of the systems they are also set >up so that traffic where latency *is* important (eg. telnet and irc mostly) >goes over the modem link. Traffic where latency isn't important (eg. web, >ftp, news etc) come back over the satellite link. After all who cares if >your download takes an extra half second to start.
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