On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > There's also satellite ...
Ack-pfft!! I wouldn't use satellite Internet if you gave it to me for free. 1.5 second RTT sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons. (That is not a typo. 1.5 seconds. 1500 ms.) I think it'd be faster to put the data on a floppy diskette and mail it there US post. Plus the hacktacular "accelerators" they give you to make web browsing semi-bearable often don't work with Linux. Or even Windows, sometimes. Run away, do not pass go, danger Will Robinson, etc. > another potential benefit of a middleman that Ben didn't mention: > while it may not make any sense, they're occasionally *cheaper* than > just getting it direct from the source. Er, yes, I did leave that out. Good point. The usual explanation is they offer better rates because they're buying wholesale and have lower markup and overhead than Corporate Leviathan's retail channels. I dunno if that's true; maybe they just made a deal with the devil or something... -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
