[TriLUG] Google Fiber

[William Sutton]

or FedEx trucks per fortnight.

William Sutton

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Aaron Joyner wrote:

> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson at windstream.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:48:11 -0500, William Sutton <william at trilug.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  +1.  Having been a Comcast customer (I would say "disgruntled", but that
>>> would be redundant), and having used HughesNet at my in-laws', as much as I
>>> hate Comcast, you would die of old age waiting for data to come back over
>>> Hughes.  Even ssh over Hughes is terribly slow.  Nevermind something like
>>> Flash....
>>>
>>
>> Testimonials at the Hughesnet website indicate that their customers enjoy
>> having something faster than dial-up. They don't mention satellite's
>> round-trip delay.
>>
>> Could anything be worse?
>>
>> Some of us remember the days when 20 WPM CW over ham radio was considered
>> fast. Hold a minute while I convert that to a baud rate... ummmm, on second
>> thought, perhaps someone else has already done the math... Hah! Here it is,
>> from W8JI:
>> http://www.w8ji.com/cw_bandwidth_described.htm
>>
>> 60 WPM is perhaps about 50 baud. So 20 WPM (faster than I was ever able to
>> copy) is about 17 baud. Seems terribly slow by today's standards, or even
>> compared to 110-baud early dial-up.
>>
>> Even slower were the semaphore and wigwag methods of flag communication:
>> http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/historic_signaling_new.pdf
>>
>> For REALLY primitive rapid long-distance communication check out RFC 1149.
>> The data transmission rate? Proper implementation might yield 9102 Mbit/s,
>> according to this Wikipedia article:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
>>
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