Brenda Ann wrote:


"craigm" wrote in message
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Brenda Ann wrote:


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Streaming is not DX. Also, where do you think these rural listeners are
going to get broadband internet access that would allow them to listen
to these streams? Ain't gonna happen, because nobody is supplying
broadband outside of cities. (hint: satellite internet doesn't handle
streaming audio for beans, since the backhaul is still via telephone
modem, and the lag doesn't allow for enough FEC... )


Can you explain "backhaul is still via telephone modem"?

Sure.

Downlink is from the bird. You still have to be connected to a phone line
for your uplink (unless you want to pay beuxcoup bux for an uplink
transmitter). Thus, you get good download speeds, but the return path is
a slow 56Kb/s phone modem. This causes long ping times, which causes poor
forward error correction and nasty slow uploads.


Since the two primary providers of satellite internet service in the US do
not use phone lines for the uplink, all of their customers must be paying
the big bucks. (While their service isn't cheap, they have no phone uplink
option.)

Actually using a phone line would reduce the latency issues relative to a
satellite uplink.

This is another area where you don't know what you are talking about.