Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
 ·TDS
 ·WildBlue
| reply to geoffinak3
Re: why doesn't satellite internet compete against cable and dsl
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It could be done, the bandwidth is up there, it might take some compression or other ideas but let smart people think about it and we will find the answer.
Is the bandwidth really up there? At what cost? So far we've been told by all consumer satellite offerings and experts to date that the bandwidth is simply not up there in sufficient quantity to offer cable- or dsl-like usage at the --
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randyvsatus
Premium
join:2005-03-03
Monument, CO
·Qwest.net
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= Island Jeff  Is the bandwidth really up there? At what cost? So far we've been told by all consumer satellite offerings and experts to date that the bandwidth is simply not up there in sufficient quantity to offer cable- or dsl-like usage ...
Knowing how much satellite bandwidth is available (relative to terrestrial solutions) is not the issue...the issue, as dbirdman says above, is the enormous gap in the cost to provide the bandwidth from a satellite vs a terrestrial source...."Satellite internet uses bandwidth per customer, not per neighborhood or per country. That makes it massively more expensive, per gigabyte, than any other method of internet access. -dbirdman
Now ya know!
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Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18 | Thanks for completing my thought... appears my post above was oddly truncated somehow. Weird. |
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