On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 12:45:44 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:



Isn't satellite pretty fast? I got satellite in the UK for a few years when I couldn't get DSL. At that time it was as good as DSL.


Up until a little over a year ago, I had Wildblue satellite. MAXIMUM
download speed, 57KB/s. Often slower than a 9200 baud dial up modem.
Max allowed download amount, 7 gigabytes per MONTH, effectively 5.5
gig because they count all the network handshaking. Downloading
anything large was nearly impossible because of the frequent loss of
signal. And yes, they advertise it as "equivalent to DSL."

-dan z-


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