----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: Re: Satelite systems
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Marc Evans wrote: > > 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 > > For satellite, I believe the nearest pingable router is in orbit, so that > does not include the trip back to Earth, or the return journey. (I could be > wrong on this.) > I believe you are [wrong;] the satellite is merely a repeater at the physical layer. Rich Cloutier President, C*O SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
