The Equator and internet service??
Does being closer to the equator have anything to do with internet service? Up North it could be raining, sleeting, snowing cats and dogs and I ALWAYS had internet service. Here in Florida, EVER...
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Sam Spade wrote:Chris Bryant wrote:
Easy- bad terrestrial equipment. A bit of moisture in a connection is all it takes.
there are still miles of "dark" fiber optic cable wating to be used,
And what kind of bad equipment is that which dries out immediately when the rain stops ??
You're not serious are you? Do you understand QAM modulation? Do you have a clue as to capacitance, reactance, the effect of moisture on those properties, and how they affect data transmission?
Guy Who Wants To Argue wrote:
Then are you saying that every little town in West Texas, just for instance, has a boat load of "dark fiber" upon which they can draw ??
Sorry, but you obviously both have no clue as to what you are talking about, and simply want to argue (spell checker just gave me choice of obviously and obliviously- smart spell checker).
Satellites simply are not part of the Internet, period. You have to understand how the Internet works- I type this, hit send, these bytes are broken in to packets, each packet has an address, and each packet makes its way to the address- but not all together, and not via the same route. This is *not* like phone service, where you are physically connected via copper to the person you are speaking to (though that's not so much, these days). You send a few packets via satellite, and they are late enough they are sent again. Latency is a real issue, and will nearly always be routed around. IOW, a satellite connection would never be used, with the exception of the end user.
