[ILUG] broadband access...

[Paul Kelly]

Smith, Graham - Computing Technician wrote:

> I think for many people on this list, the latency could be 
> even more of an issue for doing remote administration stuff 
> - telnet and ssh, various tunnelling stuff and remote X or 
> vnc etc etc. 


The latency (probably in the 600ms range) *might* be tolerable for X and 
VNC, with the bandwidth making up for it, but you can totally forget 
Quake and friends.

If anyone ever gets LEO satellites working, then you'd be talking 
something useable - 20ms. That's quite a way off. 2010 if we're lucky.

Paul.