Author: Andy Random Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Latency of Terminal Sessions [was]: Free .PDF of
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Stephen Davies wrote:
> Yeah, just like trying to do the same over an X.29 session to a computer
> 3000+ miles away.
> (AlemBank, Almaty if you are interested)
Are people still using X.29? I worked on a Triple-X PAD implementation
back in the late eighties, but I'd assume they had all gone the way of the
dodo by now!
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Victor Churchill wrote:
> There seem to be a lot of areas where fibre has not reached (heck,
> where /copper/ hasn't reached) and folks use satellite connections. OK
> for web browsing and emailing maybe, but the round trip time would
> make server managing impractical.
Are you sure they were really a satellite connection? They certainly exist
however I have several non-techy friends in the US who call their
connections "satellite" - because they have a dish, but in fact they are
really microwave links and are in fact pretty decent, one of them gets
better performance from her connection than I do from my (fairly decent)
cable connection.
