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To: BillyG who wrote (48992)4/10/2000 5:42:00 PM
From: Peter V  Read Replies (1) of 50808
 
Setting up the dish has to be easier than waiting for DSL! Oops, sore subject... ;-)

Hard to believe, but I'm still waiting. Should be soon, or so I'm told.

But as far as the delay goes, adding a few thousand miles to account for distance from the equator won't add more than a few hundredths of a second. But a half second delay is nothing for web surfers who usually use a 56K modem. Or even acounting for normal web traffic. I think most of the surfing time is not spent waiting for a response, but rather the downloading of the site itself, which should hopefully be very quick with the satellite transmission. They already have one-way satellite service, but it's expensive and your uploads go through a regular modem, so it's hardly worhtwhile.
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