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CardJoe · 26th Feb 2008, 08:56

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/02...bs_broadband/1

Japan launched a satellite on Saturday which it hopes holds the key to offering 1.2Gb/s Internet connectivity.

p3n · 26th Feb 2008, 09:21

Got latency? The older style satellite connections relied on a normal connection to queue up http downloads to be delivered by your massive satelite pipe, wonder if they've improved that - either way theres no way around the latency...

rjkoneill · 26th Feb 2008, 09:33

my xbox live and pc games run well on my connection
i only use torrents occasionally

i wouldnt make use of the extra speed tbh

DougEdey · 26th Feb 2008, 09:41

I'd rather have Parisian Fibre....

DXR_13KE · 26th Feb 2008, 10:06

i would like to see the latency on that.... IMHO cheap fiber is the way of the future....

samkiller42 · 26th Feb 2008, 10:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougEdey

I'd rather have Parisian Fibre....

Aye, likewise, however, they could make a mobile dish receiver, so you can connect it to your laptop for 'on the go' mobile browesing, handy

Sam

hawky84 · 26th Feb 2008, 11:10

The benifit of the sat is that they wont have to dig up roads to lay out the fibre network and then in another 10 years when we get 1000Gbit net they can just replace the orbiting sat. and the US can even do a bit of target practise on the old one

Agent_M · 26th Feb 2008, 11:48

it seems like a good idea for places that have regular earthquakes, like when the majority of the far east got cut off from the internet after one.

Burnout21 · 26th Feb 2008, 11:49

as we all know Sky television can throw pissy fits if its cloudy or windy, well any type of weather tbh. so id rather have a nice fibre connection!

mikeuk2004 · 26th Feb 2008, 12:58

Well japan is so far ahead of us, will be another 30 years before we get something close to that.

Faulk_Wulf · 26th Feb 2008, 14:59

Ain't that the truth. *sigh*

naokaji · 26th Feb 2008, 15:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeuk2004

Well japan is so far ahead of us, will be another 30 years before we get something close to that.

we still have to catch up to certain countries in northern europe... *jealous mode on* 100 Mbit up and down in Finnland for example *jealous mode off*

MrWillyWonka · 26th Feb 2008, 15:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agent_M

it seems like a good idea for places that have regular earthquakes, like when the majority of the far east got cut off from the internet after one.

I think that is a very good point, a few seconds latency on web viewing surely is enough to compensate for the weeks without Internet after an earthquake? Also allows people in very remote regions to gain internet access.

Arkanrais · 26th Feb 2008, 22:53

pr0n at 1440p h.264
"theres the money shot"

The_Beast · 26th Feb 2008, 23:02

that is pretty sweet

15 miles out in the boondocks and you can get Internet service

Fly · 27th Feb 2008, 00:43

wow, just think of how much pr0n!!!

evox · 27th Feb 2008, 03:08

damn, imagine your seed ratio on trackers...

*Drool*

Steve-0 · 27th Feb 2008, 03:28

30 years from now, it'll be 10-14gb/s

Hydra · 27th Feb 2008, 05:10

There needs to more than one of those...

I'm in the middle of the US, and the only high speed around here is $50 a month for a lousy 768kbps connection. It's outrageous.

HourBeforeDawn · 27th Feb 2008, 06:30

okay we need a sat like this for the US lol now I dont need anything in the gig range I would be happy with 50mb down 10mb up range would be great for my needs.

26th Feb 2008, 08:56	#1
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,940	Japan to launch 1.2Gb/s satellite broadband http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/02...bs_broadband/1 Japan launched a satellite on Saturday which it hopes holds the key to offering 1.2Gb/s Internet connectivity. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

26th Feb 2008, 09:21	#2
p3n Hypermodder Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 731	Got latency? The older style satellite connections relied on a normal connection to queue up http downloads to be delivered by your massive satelite pipe, wonder if they've improved that - either way theres no way around the latency... Last edited by p3n; 26th Feb 2008 at 10:53.

26th Feb 2008, 09:33	#3
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27th Feb 2008, 03:08	#17
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27th Feb 2008, 05:10	#19
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27th Feb 2008, 06:30	#20
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