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[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

HughesNet

the latency was over a second

It's going to space!

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 4 points 3 months ago

It very definitely was 😅 The way that company used the satellite network was cool, don't get me wrong. They would use it to push content out to all their stores with multicast which was really efficient with bandwidth. I loved it for that, but I hated interacting with it over unicast in any way, shape, or form. Horses for courses, as they say.