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Reddit mentions of Cobham Explorer 710 BGAN Terminal
Sentiment score: 1
Reddit mentions: 1
We found 1 Reddit mentions of Cobham Explorer 710 BGAN Terminal. Here are the top ones.
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- High Data Rate Streaming: +650 kbps +325 kbps
- Streaming IP: 32, 64, 128 kbps
- Wireless Access Point and support for BGAN bonding
- Built-in SIP server
- Embedded webserver
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| Weight | 11.0231131 Pounds |
This is mostly true, nice. You can purchase, even at this moment on amazon, a transmitter with built in receiver for satellite communications. The transmitters and receivers can be the size of a laptop, as you can see in that link. If we were boringly rich, we might just throw $7000 at something like this for reasons.
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The real issue is that you might not be rich enough to say, afford your own satellite. So that's where the problem lies most of the time. You won't be allowed to just connect to a satellite and directly access the internet in most cases, without login credentials that hopefully your rich friend can just give you.
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You're right about latency. Latency definitely sucks, on average the lag is about 2-3 seconds roundtrip in practice, 1-1.5 in theory. Sucks for gaming at least, and remember, you're stupid rich so of course you just want this thing for gaming on the go.
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Now that I think of it, even if you could convince your family connections at NASA to build you a small satellite in their spare time, and get Elon Musk, your other best friend, to launch it for you, I'm not sure how you could physically connect yourself to the internet for free without breaking laws somewhere. You want to watch out for laws like that, because you may lose money, and India might blow your toy out of the sky.
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Anyone know how to connect to the internet with your own devices, legally? And can it be done for free somehow in the name of public access or something?
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