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Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by callalex on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @03:14PM (#24496321)
How many bits per year was your throughput?
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Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by withinboredom on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:26PM (#24498737)
In the case of the router, it was going through a 1mbps satellite uplink, so it didn’t need to be fast (though it was still fast, at -50db IIRC, it’s the SNR that matters). In the case of the directional antenna on a boat, I got regular speeds just tons of dropped packets. I have no idea how far I was from the routers, but I couldn’t see the houses.
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