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Old 20th Feb 2014, 21:29
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The Banjo
 
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Very funny
On a more serious note, satellite based wifi has fundamental limitations associated with the signal travel time (aircraft to geo syncronous satellite, to earth and back). Ping times in the order of 500ms mean that a number of internet functions we take for granted on terra firma simply do not work or are too slow to be of practical use.

Find a way for light to travel faster and you will make yourself very wealthy.

The only way to overcome this would be to make use of ground based beacons- the existing phone network being the obvious choice, giving limited coverage.
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