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The cable and DSL companies treat us like crap. I'm guessing you've never had to use Comcast, ATT, Verizon, or any of the other virtual broadband monopolies? Or spend months trying to rectify overbilling while you get passed from department to department to local office where they are all unable to help?]]>Feb 23rd 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/
This delay is around 1 second. That makes anything that is ping time intensive die. Downloading big files should still be fine.]]>Feb 23rd 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/
Your right...latency is bad for Satellite. Satellites aren't even good for cellular phones...thats why cell towers are so important.

And if they claim 1.2GB per second, that's total bandwidth which will then be divided by the number of accessing users - so, it has the potential to be even slower.

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You are wrong. Before I was able to get service from a wireless ISP, I had two-way satellite service from DirecPC. The dish setup is both a receiver AND transmitter, although the upload speed was still pretty slow at 256kbps or 512kbps, but it was MUCH BETTER than needing to use a 28.8 phone line.

Regardless how much bandwidth they can squeeze out, the 800ms-1500ms latency of non-low-earth-orbiting satellites just kills the internet experience. Totally worthless to those who can receive DSL and cable.

America has the most pathetic broadband infrastructure of pretty much any developed nation. Because of the moronic, corrupt republicans, you cable company and phone company DO NOT have to sell wholesale services which allows other companies to offer you cable or DSL service. This intrinsic monopoly is what keeps DSL speeds at < ~3mbps when other countries have thing like VDSL/VDSL2 that can run upwards of ~30mbps. Also, many countries are really starting to ratchet up fiber-to-the-home installations, whereas the USA only has one large-scale buildout (Verizon) and even that is only in certain areas in their current coverage area.
Many people always resort to the same tired argument about population density. The flaw in that argument is that the population density of the top 25 markets (or even top 100) in the United States is quite high, definitely high enough to warrant fiber-to-the-home rollouts and general competitive broadband. And yet the only company doing a nationwide rollout of FTTH is Verizon FIOS and only to their existing subscriber areas. ]]>Feb 23rd 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access#Two-way

In rural Australia: $USD1011 for installation/hardware, and $USD230 a month gets you 512/128, 2GB of downloads and uploads.

Not cheap!]]>Feb 23rd 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/
For example, I pay $39.99 per month for 7Mbps/1.2Mbps DSL, and it's fibre optic, so the pings are amazing. For only around $90 per month, we can get 16Mbps service....

Cable prices are about the same too, around $50 for 8/1Mbps...]]>Feb 24th 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/
It would work great even with a hundred users if they were ONLY browsing the web.]]>Feb 23rd 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/>The 1.2gbs is probably a total to be spread across the network.

Nope. Its per antenna.

1.2 Gbs is for a 5M antenna and are designed for enterprises. The 45-cm antenna will equip average users for 155 Mbps down / 6 Mbps up. So its plenty fast, but Japan already has dirt cheap 100Mbs fiber-optic right today; this satellite for the country folk living in the boonies (like those tiny Okinawan islands like Ishigaki-jima).

http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f14/overview/kizuna_e.html]]>Feb 23rd 2008 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/

And least ye forget, they are STILL pissed at Japan over WWII...
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1.2 gigaBYTES per second? that's almos 10 gigabits per second.

I don't believe that.

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It should be gigabits]]>Feb 24th 2008 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 24th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/
Is Indonesia one of 'em, coz if it is I am damn happy. The ADSL Internet in here is slow and inconsistent, and I would happily switch to any ISP that provides a frickin download time of 1.2 GIGABYTES per SECOND!]]>Feb 23rd 2008 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/]]>Feb 23rd 2008 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 23rd 2008 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/
Is 1.2GB/s the total bandwidth available, how many people can get that speed at the same time using the satellite? Is there no limit?

How much does an emitting satellite dish system cost for which bandwidth costs?

What will be the costs to get connected on this system? Metered by bandwidth used?

Would there be a reason to send up several of this type of satellite covering the same region to increase the available bandwidth?

I think that if this type the satellite can support an unlimited amount of 1.2GB/s connections, and that if the two-way satellite dish is relatively affordable, this would be PERFECT solution for Africa, southern Asia, and to cover all other region of this planet with developping countries. This should be a priority for the World Bank to finance the launch of this type of satellite to cover in priority the poor regions of the world.

Satellite -> WiMax -> WiFi Mesh would cover the whole world with broadband in a very short period of time and for an affordable price of a few cents per month per user.]]>Feb 24th 2008 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 24th 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 24th 2008 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 24th 2008 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 24th 2008 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/23/japan-launches-kizuna-satellite-hopes-it-will-deliver-high-spee/Feb 24th 2008 6:18AM