> It makes me wonder if anyone has tried to break down the layers to optimize this. Yep. There was a bunch of proxy servers that optimized HTTP for satellite s

> It makes me wonder if anyone has tried to break down the layers to optimize this. Yep. There was a bunch of proxy servers that optimized HTTP for satellite service. I used Globax back in the day to speed up one-way satellite service: https://web.archive.org/web/20040602203838/http://globax.info/shorten.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040602203838/http://globax.inf... Back then traffic was around 10 cents per megabyte in my city, so satellite service was a good way to shave off these costs.