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Seth Kneller wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > >> Is the 100Mbit via satellite or fibre? Surely if it's Satellite the >> latency would still be higher than a good cable / dsl connection - i.e. >> not much cop for internet gaming. >> > > >From what I was told the last time I went there, from Goonhilly the > signal gets taken via Plymouth and Exeter on fibre, back up to London to > one of the big switching centres in London and then onto where they need > it to go. > > Most of the work that Goonhily does these days involves sending and > receiving TV signals from other parts of the world, INMARSAT Ship to > Shore communications and Ad-Hoc IP connections for business clients. > So it's likely to be 100Mbit fibre then. Nice. Thats a connection I would like. :-) It reminds me of when a friend of mine started working at an ISP in Sheffield (no name's mentioned, but it isn't hard to work out). He said that they setup P2P downloads on the machines attached to the network and were getting speeds of a few megabytes per second! I think the ISP in question had multiple 100Mbit links, could have been Gigabit links even. I'm just looking forward to the day AOL roll out ADSL Max. Rob Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html