Hey, in early 00 I briefly worked for an ISP trying to do rural Portugal/Spain satellite internet (to exploit rather large subsidies offered at the time)! Afair

Hey, in early 00 I briefly worked for an ISP trying to do rural Portugal/Spain satellite internet (to exploit rather large subsidies offered at the time)! Afair it was 1-2 Mbit downstream for all subscribers in one area from geo stationary sat with 500-1000ms pings. Almost unusable for normal browsing. Company was from defense background and from my limited understanding at the time they were piggybacking on some military leftovers tech. Idea was to use commercial Wifi to link local customers to central location with some magic proxy server trying to hide all that latency.