[LINK] The shift to satellite

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2016-03-06 at 10:03 +1100, David Boxall wrote:
> An interesting set of questions.

Indeed.

Though satellite service has so many downsides that the occasional
outage or degradation of service due to rain or whatever pales into
insignificance.

Satellite service dooms the user to being a limited and passive
consumer. End of story. Nothing interactive works well - so no gaming,
no telemedicine, no VoIP. Things like teleconferencing are generally
painful if possible at all. Even just browsing the web is "click - wait
at least 0.5 seconds - see". And because a modern web page consists of
many separate elements, fetched individually by the browser, it can be
a much longer wait than 0.5 seconds. Any ack/nack protocol will be
slooow - so no remote X windows, and stuff like VNC/RDP will be very
slow too.

But even the passive consumer won't get much. The quotas imposed on
satellite services are very, very low. So no video uploads, no off-site
backups etc.

About all you will have on satellite will be (a few) movies, painful
web browsing, email, and social media.

Welcome to the future, Tassie!

Regards, K.

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