[LINK] Wireless Broadband for Regional Australia

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Frank O'Connor
<francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Personally, I think that satellite (with regular upgrades) or eventual laying of pervasive fibre, was the answer to maintaining universal coverage in the bush, rather than 4G towers dotted over the landscape ....


Satellite is like renting... a recurring expense, ie a SERVICE you pay
for (control ground station, orbit adjustment, backup strategy in case
of malfunction, etc). Whereas if you build a fixed-wireless tower...
it's fixed infrastructure, like a bridge. It'll be there in 100 years
with little maintenance cost compared to a satellite.

Not to mention the 2nd-class internet service you get over satellite
due to uplink/downlink delay...  aka latency. More important nowadays
with "web 2.0" AJAX "web apps" (GMail, Facebook and the like)  than in
the previous non-AJAX web.

Satellite Internet faster than advertised, but latency still awful
Satellite latency is 638ms, 20 times higher than terrestrial broadband.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/satellite-internet-faster-than-advertised-but-latency-still-awful/

Discussion
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1194391&sid=6bfd52f4ed7398a415152652ede36aac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw

FC


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