On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:
>
> Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >>> Geosynchronous orbit is roughly 22,000 miles straight up.
>
> >>> Your request has to go 22,000 miles into space, turn around
> >>> and go 22,000 miles...
>
> Actually, it's more like 22,400 miles straight up from the _equator_.
> The slant range from our neck of the woods (i.e. 42-43 degrees or so
> north latitude) is going to be significantly greater than that! I'll
> leave the exact calculations to someone else, but the point is that
> it's actually going to be a lot worse than Ben's already gloomy news.
> (OK, granted DirecTV/DirecPC's uplinks might be in south Florida or
> Colorado or wherever, but those latitudes, and ours, still have to
> be factored in... In any case, it's not a pretty picture...)
Starband has their uplink in Georgia. The results of 60 seconds of 80 byte
ping packets without BST to the nearest pingable router are:
round-trip min/avg/max = 660.2/1054.0/2046.2 ms
> I prefer a non-RF approach, generally speaking. One, I'm a ham and the
> noise floor on our microwave bands is going to get worse as time goes
> on, and second, it means that fewer people can listen in on my packets :-)
Hey Bayard, you mean that you don't like the NSA filter being integral on
your ISP feed? ;-)
- Marc
>
> Bayard
>
> *****************************************************************
> To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body.
> *****************************************************************
>
*****************************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body.
*****************************************************************
