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wolrah posted:Welcome to the world of satellite communication. Most consumer satellite networks are in geostationary orbit because it allows a stationary dish rather than requiring expensive tracking and positioning equipment to constantly re-point the dish. Geostationary orbit for this planet is 22,236 miles above the equator. If you recall your high school physics class, the speed of light is 186,282 miles per second. ViaSat's new Ka-band service is really badass, by the way. The only systems I have access to that use it are classified, but suffice to say they've got to be using crazy LEO birds to get the pings they get. There's not that big of a difference between a bad day on CenturyLink DSL and a good day on ViaSat. Disclaimer it's a FFP/O government contract with absolutely unrealistic SLAs so I'm sure everything on the path is dedicated. One of my former PMs is at a South American company that's doing some hot-poo poo enterprise grade satcom stuff too, things like onsite caching servers with completely OOB updating. Between that and the monster bandwidth available once the full Ka spectrum is opened up, an average consumer really wouldn't notice a difference outside of gaming and Netflix.
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