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:
You're not serious are you?
I am absolutely serious.
When the symptoms are:
A little rain has no effect, not matter how long it goes on but when the clouds get real tall and dense or the rain falls REAL heavily, then there is an outage.....that magically starts working again when the clouds or rain thins out and NOT when the rain actually stops......indicates a loss of radio signal and NOT a signal degradation because the receiving equipment is a little damp.
Well, that is exactly what happened to me, and after much work, it wound up being bad hardware at my closest dslam, where the coax goes to fiber, and is about 3 miles from me. I assure you there are no satellite links in that circuit.
Now it *may* be that some ISPs use a microwave link, but that is usually the "last mile" to the end user, and not a main line.
Then.....the end links are not multi-routed. There is only one path from me to my ISP. When you set up a particular system, you get to define how far that end link goes and at what point it joins the big network.
And none of them are via satellite. Bottom line is it is simply too expensive, and will never be anything more than a link for an end user- not at all part of the Internet. Find a single ISP using a sat link for a bunch of users- you will not, because it does not exist.
