DirectWay/Linux?

[Net Llama!]

On 12/13/02 19:46, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Friday 13 December 2002 03:58 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:21:58 -0800 Tony Alfrey 
> <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> > I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a
>> > DirectWay satellite link (the Hughes box).  The sales support
>> > people tell me I gotta use Windoze (ugh, ugh, ugh) and I seem to
>> > remember seeing something about an upcoming unix port.
>> > Is anybody out there using this DirectWay setup, and better yet,
>> > are you using linux??
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Based on what I think the radius of a geosynchronous orbit is, the speed 
> of light lag up and down two ways should be a little under 1/2 second. 

Actually, I'm fairly certain its even significantly less than that.

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