[ale] vonage outage?

[Preston Boyington]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 14:24, Preston Boyington wrote:
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>>I don't know anything of VOIP, could I use it over a satellite internet
>>connection?  I don't think I can use SSH/SSL with satellite, is VOIP any
>>different?
>>
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> This reminds me of an old adage.  Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a
> station wagon full of tapes.  Its the latency that will kill you.  I
> guess it can't be too old :)  
> 
> Seriously I think you latency would be too use VOIP over satellite.
> 
> 

yeah I was thinking it would be like those old Motorola walkie talkie's 
in the military (roger, over, *squelch*)

seems that a repeater is what I'm going to have to go with.