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> The speed of light is about 186,282 miles per second, > so it takes at absolute minimum about 50ms to go from > New York to LA. > > If there's a satellite, there's perhaps a few milliseconds > more time spent switching. Hmm, remember it's about 2500 miles from LA to NYC while com. sats. are in geo-sync orbits at 22,000 mile altitude. So via satellite you have to add at least 44,000 miles. Satellite links have high latency. Dennis Leas ------------------- dennis@mdbs.com