17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
CVL staff member Nate Sammons says:
writes Matthew J Ghio:
profitable venture, but getting a high bandwidth net connection in the middle of the ocean would increase startup costs. Telecom, electricity,
Well, a satellite dish can transfer around 100MB (megaBytes, not bits) per second. I'm not too sure how much this kind of link costs, but I would also assume that the Oceania people aren't going to go without a network conection to start.
Perhaps the appropriate time to worry about Oceania's network connection would be when Oceania's builders have the $ 1 Billion they need instead of begging for $20 or $30k for models. In any case, this is NOT appropriate stuff for cypherpunks. Perry