[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 4 March 2015 10:42:42 UTC, Richard Maher wrote:
> On 3/4/2015 5:55 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 
> >> The Netherlands have about 18 million inhabitants,
> >
> > Netherlands: 406 inhabitants/square kilometer
> > USA: 32 inhabitants/square kilometer
> > Sweden: 21 inhabitants/square kilometer
> >
> > The northen part (59% of the area) has an average
> > of *4* inhabitants/square kilometer. Or 12% of the
> > total population.
> >
> > This of course has an influence on cost for supplying
> > services to people, such as internet connections
> >
> 
> http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/population-density-people-per-sq-km-wb-data.html
> 
> < 3 Cop that! 90% in capital cities and the rest around the coast.
> 
> But Dirk still wants his avatar to render seamlessly at Uluru and the 
> black-stump. If he can't upload the snaps of himself in his Speedos to 
> Facebook at 1Gb then the World is much the poorer for it.

Can't both Uluru and the middle-of-nowhere USA can be addressed by
satellite broadband ? I thought much of the US already was connected
this way, e.g. for gas stations and other chain retail outlets in the
middle of nowhere???

The bandwidth may not be gigabit class, and the latency may make line
mode EDT a better option than screen mode TPU, but it's tried, tested,
and largely proven, and good enough for what some chain retailers need,
e.g. downloading daily pricefile updates and uploading daily sales
figures.

Not outrageously expensive either - at least not in the parts of the
UK where it's still used as a last resort substitute for DSL.