Re: Rural Outsourcing -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Rural Outsourcing
From: "Douglas Handy" <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:39:14 -0500
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>
> 22 miles? Geosynchronous satellites orbit at 22,500 miles, IIRC. 22 miles
> =
> 116,160 feet.


Sorry, I meant 22k miles.  Fat fingers...

But my point was that last I knew you'd have an inherent 500ms or more for
the trip, and no amount of modem upgrades seem likely to reduce that.  When
I used the service, my average time was more like 700ms, IIRC.

Doug

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