Sometime tonight the Mars Reconnassance Orbiter will enter Mars orbit. I was reading it's page at Wikipedia and came across this nugget:
That's right folks, a satellite orbiting Mars, 80000000 km away when it's closest to Earth, will have up to 6 times the bandwidth (using satellite/wireless) than you can get from the Telkom exchange 3km from your house (using copper).
Granted the latency is 12 minutes (which I think beats IS on a bad day) but still the fact remains. 6Mpbs. From Mars. And I'm looking forward to getting 384kbps...
That's right folks, a satellite orbiting Mars, 80000000 km away when it's closest to Earth, will have up to 6 times the bandwidth (using satellite/wireless) than you can get from the Telkom exchange 3km from your house (using copper).
Granted the latency is 12 minutes (which I think beats IS on a bad day) but still the fact remains. 6Mpbs. From Mars. And I'm looking forward to getting 384kbps...
