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ViaSat Delivers 12 Mbps+ Via Satellite

Posted by timothy on from the ok-this-looks-sexy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last Thursday, ViaSat announced pricing for its new home broadband service, which is set to deliver 12 Mbps+ download speeds (3 Mbps+ up) beginning next week for $50 per month. Engadget just dropped by the company's demo home just a few feet from the Engadget trailer at the Las Vegas Convention Center parking lot to try it out, and posted their review." The comments there, understandably, wail for information about how much data that $50 buys.

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  1. Re:Speed of light says the latency will be bad. by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's why I use straight path neutrino beams through the planet. I quit using CERN's neutrino source though, because of the negative latency. It's annoying to get the results of a command while I'm still typing it.

  2. Re:lots of land, no line by noh8rz2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I recently assisted a gentleman on HughesNet with a ping of 1008.

    what's hughesnet? from your description is a nsfw video chat thing, and I don't want to check on my work computer.

  3. Re:Ping by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are quite a few more gamers than you think out in the country.

    Cow-tipping is not a game.

    It's a sport! :)