Re: [ProgSoc] Permanent Connection...

["Howell Tam" <hwhtam@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au>]

>I used to do some stuff for the guys at satnet.
>
>While sats are very fast, the upload is by modem. The ip is then spoofed to
>reroute the packets by the sat. Bear in mind that for large d/l they are
>wonderful but they are awful for large amounts of heavily interactive data
>(muds, vi, etc......) because the technology for sattelites does not handle
>it very well (still unclear why).


    Do you mean if we're doing muds, vi, etc, there'll be some really
strange things happen?

Pigeon.

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