On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 00:56:11 +0530 "Rony Bill" ronbilly@hotpop.com wrote:
Hello Linuxers,
An internet connection for the common man, that provides a download speed of 1 GBytes per second is still a dream. Although satellite based net connections exist, they have limitted subscribers due to high costs and limitted bandwidth.
Nowadays the satellite broadcast frequencies are already in several Ghz, for example the Ku band that transmitts DTH signals. Suppose we have a satellite that transmitts at a frequency of say 10 Ghz. This translates to a digital bit rate of 10 Gbits per second. After a little frequency beating, we get an output signal of 8 Gbits per second or 1 GByte per second. This signal inputs into the computer using a gigabit LAN.
Hey Rony,
The transponder transmits at 10GHz, but does not have a 10GHz bandwidth. These are two different things - center frequency and frequency bandwidth. Wish we could have that kind of frequency allocation though!
Keep the ideas coming. You never know, we must just hit onto the next big thing !
Cheers,
Zainul.