Re: 60ms cross continent

[Mark Tinka]

On 8/Jul/20 15:21, Paul Nash wrote:
> When we started TICSA (Internet Africa/Verizon/whatever), we went with a 9600 
> bps satellite link to New Jersey specifically because the SAT-2 fibre had 
> just been installed and traffic was being moved off satellite.  The satellite 
> folk were getting *very* nervous, and gave us a heavily discounted service 
> provided we had a 5-year contract that specified that they service *had* to 
> run over satellite.  Job insurance.
>
> As our requirements grew, we added fibre connections.  Eventually the telco 
> canceled the satellite connection as they were starting to focus on VSAT.

There's no denying... they well-and-truly made their money :-).

If I think back to what we paid for 192Kbps up, 320Kbps down, it may
make all the grown folk on this list cry in :-).

Mark.