I was told by the owner of a company that installs satellite systems that there is about a 750 ms lag in communications. He was installing an dish I used for Educational channels for me and while talking to him I found out his company also did satellites and he had the satellite Internet from the company he repped. Makes it kind of bad for online gamers <G>.
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:21:58 -0800 Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a DirectWay > > I have a client that uses it... She tells me there's a killer lag between > requesting a page and actually getting. I haven't a clue if it's the speed > of light limit or hardware problems t Huges. > > As for a linux client in that setup, never heard of such a thing. It'd be > great though. > > -- > > ****************************************************************************** > Registered Linux User Number 185956 > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&group=linux > Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net > 6:54pm up 20 days, 20:36, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
