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It's more like having a 10gigabit fiber line and choosing to have outbound traffic routed via carrier pigeon. It's latency, not bandwidth, that makes a satellit

It's more like having a 10gigabit fiber line and choosing to have outbound traffic routed via carrier pigeon. It's latency, not bandwidth, that makes a satellite connection maddening.

bibinou 14y ago
also, cost. Sending to a satellite is much more involved than receiving from it.
- rdl 14y ago
  Not once you get to the size of circuit here, and in general, receiving from satellite is far cheaper than sending to it.