| New clients starting in April, 2007 WildBlue will conduct in-orbit testing and plans to offer service using the new satellite beginning April 12. And it will allow Wildblue to triple the number of broadband customers up to 1 million.
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Evergreen, CO | While it's better than nothing I suppose, this doesn't solve any of the latency issues with satellite broadband does it? |
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 Vchat20Landing is the REAL challengePremium
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Columbus, OH | No, but then again you are at the mercy of the laws of physics there and if you are in an area where your only choice is either dialup or satellite, I think most wouldn't care too much about the latency and go with satellite merely for the speed alone. I know that would be the case for me anyhow.
I actually had the chance to experience a satellite net connection this past year on one of my vacations to a small resort way down in the boonies part of SE Ohio. The office had free wifi hooked up to I BELIEVE a Wildblue connection. Didn't know the speed, I just knew it was a satellite based connection. Albeit I only used it to check email and a few websites during my stay, I didn't notice much of a difference from a standard cable or dsl connection to be totally honest.
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CM94sv | reply to Topmounter
said by Topmounter:While it's better than nothing I suppose, this doesn't solve any of the latency issues with satellite broadband does it? No it doesn't solve latency but it COULD ease that brutal FAP policy. Sadly I doubt they will change it though. 
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said by Topmounter:While it's better than nothing I suppose, this doesn't solve any of the latency issues with satellite broadband does it? Nope...at least not until someone invents 'subspace' radio....  |
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Piscataway, NJ | There is a solution, but it is very costly: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_···ellation |
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kudos:1 | Teledesic would have been the bomb had they not ran into that lack of money problem. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic
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