FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadband Providers

Re:FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadb... by jrockway on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:12PM (#19495583)

The next generation of satellite Internet is not going to be based on satellites in geostationary orbit. They are close to the surface of the Earth and form a mesh that can make paths that are shorter than the great circle distance.

This should fix all three of your problems, except maybe total bandwidth.

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Re:FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadb... by ekimekim on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:53PM (#19495909)

> form a mesh that can make paths that are shorter than the great circle distance

I think that's a slight mis-wording - you can't beat the great circle distance over the surface unless you go underground, but you can definitely beat a packet-switched, zig-zagging network running through the ground with a more or less direct point-to-point mesh running 100km above it.

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Re:FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadb... by JohnFen on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @06:56PM (#19496721)

If I understand correctly, that won't fix the latency problem. It will make it less severe, though.

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Re:FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadb... by monocasa on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:22PM (#19506176)

It should give you latency that you'd expect from a wired connection.

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