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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by supermatt on Thursday November 19, 2015 @07:57AM (#10594457)
What are your options for satellite internet? The pricing these days seems very competitive, and although latency is (much) higher it should be ideal for the vast majority of use cases.
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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by mikeash on Thursday November 19, 2015 @09:25AM (#10594897)
Latency is pretty important for browsing the web. No matter how much bandwidth you have, making every request take two round-trips to geosync is going to make the connection feel very slow.

If low Earth orbit broadband internet ever happens, that could potentially be an excellent choice. But with the current offerings, it's always going to be the absolute last resort.

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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by maxerickson on Thursday November 19, 2015 @08:04AM (#10594489)
It looks like they charge the same price for ~1/10 the speed and 1/20 the transfer (Does Comcast still have a 300 GB limit? That compares favorably to 10.)
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