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Re:FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadb... by Retric on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:55PM (#19495930)
Bad weather alone does not stop GPS. Other issues can, but in cases of unobstructed views of the sky and solid equipment it’s not an issue.

Most streaming services can also degrade gracefully. Granted, we don’t have actual hardware to examine for these internet services, but many satellite uplinks already work fine in bad weather with at worst some loss of bandwidth.

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Re:FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadb... by massivecali on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:22PM (#19497716)
Tell that to my DirecTV satellite tv.
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Re:FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadb... by Retric on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:57PM (#19497838)
Direct TV is using a geostationary orbit which as I said has many issues. That’s made worse by using a tiny dish, but even then it’s still much better the closer to the equator you are. The difference between Mane and key west is huge.
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