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To: bowledover who wrote (14371)	10/9/2001 11:16:22 PM
From: Allan C.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18137

I am interested in this too. I would love to move "out to the country" but I would have a hard time giving up my cable modem. Previously there was some discussion about "latency". They say the sat systems take a few seconds longer than land lines to get the info to your box (a bad thing if you are an active trader) I have heard it is because the signal has to go further, out to the sat and back. That doesn't make sense to me though. Assuming the sat is 23000 miles up, even if you are across the country from the data source the total distance couldn't be much over 50,000 miles (counting curvature of the Earth, etc). If light travels 186,000 miles per second, then it should take less than a third of a second travel time. I also would think there would be a lot of slow switches encountered in a fiber-and-wires trip across the country which would balance out the travel time. I am probably missing something though.... Any opinions on Direcpc??