Re: 60ms cross continent

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com>]

On 12/Jul/20 14:00, Paul Nash wrote:

> Not quite VSAT, but in the bad old SA days (pre-demicracy), I did some work for a company that used a UK-based 
> satellite provider for data to the client (data was sent in the VBI), and dial-up for the traffic from the client.
>
> Still relied on a local provider for the dial-up, though, so could be censored.

Yes, in these scenarios, we called the uplink the "back-channel" :-).
And it could be anything, including dial-up.

It was not uncommon to buy uplink via SCPC from one provider, and
downlink via DVB on an inclined orbit satellite from a totally different
provider. This was a very common model between 2000 - 2009, where your
uplink and downlink ISP's were vastly different.

And who says the Internet must be symmetric :-)?

Mark.