Sometime Today, Rony Bill assembled some asciibets to say:
This high speed channel will not only be usefull as an infotainment channel for music, news and video but also for normal software and other heavy file downloads.
So, again, how is it different from television, which we already have?
Frankly I don't know what is latency in a satellite but if Philip could elaborate more and provide points on why it has a problem in sat transmission, it would help a lot in making improvements to this system.
geostationary satellites are at an altitude of 36000Km. Speed of light is 300000Km/s. That's approx. 200 ms round trip time to send a packet via a satellite.
Given this base delay, you need to have a large window for tcp acknowledgements to be sent. That means that a transmission error could go unnoticed for a much longer period of time.
I may be wrong, so someone correct me.