http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11846237
And here Mitch http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11829019
I wonder what happens when you get heavy rain storms, the signal dies for satellite TV so presumably the same for this?
Fit an RDB*?
*Ruddy Big Dish
What will the latency be like?
Pass
Think we've been down this road before, anyone remember Teledesic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic
Quote from: Glenn on Nov 26, 2010, 14:02:55
What will the latency be like?
If it's geostationary, 475msec minimum, plus whatever the ground links put in.
Not good, but if you're 20 miles from the nearest exchange with not enough users to warrant a fibre being laid... IOW, it's better than nothing!
Can't be any worse than BT. Bring it on. :thumb:
Only if it slips out of orbit. ;D
Link to company that will be operating the service http://www.avantiplc.com/