--- [email protected] wrote: From: Mark Tinka <[email protected]> On 19/Jul/18 22:43, Scott Weeks wrote:
> I know we're talking about Africa and other less well > connected countries, but good luck with that in the > Pacific, which covers about 1/3 of the planet. > > https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/pacific-size.html Yeah, things and people tend to work better if hosted on land... ----------------------------------------------------- I believe I'm on land here... ;) And there're a lot of islands with lots of people out here. 1/3 of the planet and all. :) ------------------------------------------------------ What I meant to say is a lot of folks get connectivity through satellite. 500msec plus and jitter to spare. Further it's expensive and all the 'busy' sites cost a lot of money to download the stuff folks on this list don't blink an eye at and you can't turn it off. I believe satellite coverage serves a lot of the planet's population. scott
