Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!hoptoad!pozar
From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: N.B.S. Time Service
Keywords: Time Ticks
Message-ID: <4713@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 88 23:50:26 GMT
References: <455@trane.UUCP> <4691@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <585@otto.COM>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Syncstream/Widget Systems (San Francisco)
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In article <585@otto.COM> glenn@otto.UUCP (Glenn Scott) writes:
>  In addition, the "speed of light delay" via satellite shouldn't be much
>different than the speed of light delay over a copper wire...
>
  Uh, wrong.  communications are delay 230ms by traveling
  a 44,600 (22,300 + 22,300) mile path.  It's much shorter to
  travel 3000 miles (like 15ms).

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