[Cialug] Satellite ISPs

[Nathan C. Smith]

You need the QuantumCache from april 1 technologies.  It actually caches
content before it receives it.  Perfect for satelite. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Stien [mailto:nathanism at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:27 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Satellite ISPs
> 
> On 4/9/07, Claus <cniesen at gmx.net> wrote:
> > I just wanted to second that about the latency.  Although I 
> don't have
> > satellite Internet I could compare the latency.  I streamed 
> live audio
> > from a radio station over the Internet and simultaneously from the
> > satellite.  Even though the Internet stream came from 
> Europe it was a
> > couple seconds faster than the broadcast via satellite.  
> The distance
> > between earth and the satellite is just to enormous to be 
> competitive.
> 
> The HughesNet satellite internet here I've been complaining about is
> incapable of streaming internet radio because it doesn't work
> consistently enough.  Too much packet loss, resulting in sputtering
> output.  It feels like a roughly 1996 dialup user experience in that
> regard.
> 
> -- 
> Nathan P. Stien
> Consulting Engineer / Software Developer
> Embedded Systems Electronics and Software
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