Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? 175
EdIII writes "I've been looking for a decent contention service (4:1,10:1) in South America and I am not finding much. I have also heard that some frequency bands are a lot better at cutting through cloud cover. This is for a fairly remote ground station with reliable power generation, but also routinely cloudy. I would need at least 3/1Mbps with hopefully decent latency. What's your advice Slashdotters? Yes, I know that some of the solutions can cost 20K for deployment and 2-10K per month for service. Feel free to to tell me about a good commercial service. There is another ground station that might be deployed in north east Alaska."
Drug Kingpin much? (Score:5, Funny)
Translation: "Dear Slashdot, the last RF engineer we kidnapped and enslaved has unfortunately died, can you please suggest a commercial and less bleedy replacement for our darknet?"
Re:I use Verizon FIOS (Score:5, Funny)
That sure will work in the middle of the wilderness. Just cary a giant spool of fiberoptic cable wherever you go, and unwind. It has the benefit on top of satellite internet that you will never get lost. Just retrace the internet back to Verizon's office.
Come on, did you even pretend to read the title?
Re:There are none (Score:5, Funny)
> With the speed of light limited to 186,000 miles per second and a round trip of 50,000 miles a quick
> calculations shows a minimum latency of around a 0.27 seconds and that is just signal travel time
> and not any processing overhead.
And assuming the remote side is part of the satellite and doesn't add another 50k mile round trip, before adding land latencies.
Clearly there is only one fix here, we need to ask congress to allow geostationary satellites at lower altitudes, AND to raise the speed limit on light. I can't believe they haven't addressed these issues!
Re:There are none (Score:4, Funny)
Typical "big government" wasteful spending. All Congress has to do is increase the speed of light by 100x, then there would be no need to allow geostationary satellites at lower altitudes. I'll bet you were hoping to bid on the contract for lowering geostationary satellites to new lower altitudes - nice try, we are on to your scheme.